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R & B Memories
Olumide Ted Wilson

I Come from a Fairyland
David Nwafor


This is not a Confrontational Poem
James Weldon Jenkins

Souvenance
James Weldon Jenkins

Passage
Gary Johnston

maga madness
Alice Lovelace

Woman Island
Janice Liddell
 
Puerto Rican Proverbs
Tony Medina

Poem on Black Literature
Naomi Ekeli

Intergenerational Trauma
SuAndi
 
Why Did I Come Here?
Karla Brundidge

Actual African
Akbar Imhotep

August Moon
Michael Simanga

Roseland Taxi Drive
Jose Angel Figueroa

Backward Glance
Roger Parris

Bird, strings, Big Chief: 100 Harlem
Raymond Nat Turner

Crabs in a Barrell
Lo Williams
 
i’m still breathing
Sequoia Simon

Nothing is Different
Michelle R. Smith

 Not Magic 
Kim B. Miller

Veils and Walls
José Angel Figueroa

The Tongue of Our People
Gary Johnston

One day the sky began to weep
​and did so for 300 days

Rashida James-Saadiya 

Broke Wake
​Tony Medina
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Genesis
Janice Liddell

Church for Single Mothers
Monica Lee Weatherly

Saturdays
Azariah Grant

Flying Without Wings
Gabrielle Dunn

Serious
Kyrah Jayne

we Sorrow, we Blues
Bill Marable

Shattered
Luz María López

Henna
Tony Mitchelson

Tasered Memories
Tony Mitchelson

Wakanda Forever: 99 Bullets, Chicago 1969
Eric F. Maxie

The Gospel of B.C.
 
DFaye Anderson

Hypocrisy
Mwatabu S. Okantah

Pressed & Useta
Kenneth Zakee

grow up/be a man (toughen up)
Imani Lillian Ross

No Business
By Shalena Dupree

Modern Day Sacrifices
Akbar Imhotep

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My people are creation.
Kamari Bright
 







  
 








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  • BIOGRAPHIES
  • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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  • Multimedia Art Review
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    • Mission and Content
    • About US
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