Nikky Finney’s “HOTBED 224”
June 13, 2020
NIKKY FINNEY is the author of five books of poetry, including Head Off & Split (NU Press, 2011), winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. She is the John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair… READ MORE
Category: Poetry
“Daily Conscription”
June 12, 2020
by Kyle Dargan We can no longer afford that particular romance. —James Baldwin Brother Rickey halts me before I cross East Capitol. He trumpets that we are at war. I… READ MORE
Nikky Finney’s “HOTBED 58”
June 11, 2020
It’s December in Sweden and I’ve come to pick up Miss Morrison from the Nobel Banquet at Stockholm City Hall. I’m driving the washed and waxed black limo. I have… READ MORE
“Chicago is the world’s Harold’s chicken box”
June 5, 2020
Kara Jackson open and picked apart the heart of America that beats too fast, because if you don’t run quick enough, you don’t know who will shoot you. In Chicago,… READ MORE
“Incendiary Art: Birmingham, 1963”
June 2, 2020
Patricia Smith For avery r. young Baby girls boom. Baby girls blow and burn, skin balloons, booms. Baby girls burn, boom. The Lord dangles, festive and helpless. Hymnals blacken while… READ MORE
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