• HOME ISSUE #3
  • Mission and Content
  • About US
  • POETRY AND PROSE
  • BLACK MUSIC PHOTO ESSAY
  • ESSAYS ARTICLES AND FICTION
  • VISUAL ART GALLERY
  • BIOGRAPHIES
  • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
  • Support Merge Literary Magazine
  • ISSUE #2 CELEBRATING BLACK WOMEN
  • FEATURED WRITERS AND ARTISTS
  • MERGE LITERARY MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION
  • Mission and Content
  • About US
  • POETRY
  • ESSAYS ARTICLES AND FICTION
  • Multimedia Art Review
  • PHOTOGRAPHY CELEBRATING BLACK WOMEN
  • ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
  • WRITERS AND ARTISTS BIOS
  • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
  • ISSUE #1 POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
    • Mission and Content
    • About US
    • POETRY
    • PROSE
    • ART ILLUSTRATION
    • ESSAYS AND PLAY
    • MULTI-MEDIA QUILT REVIEW
    • WRITERS AND ARTISTS BIOS
    • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
    • Support Merge Literary Magazine
MERGE LITERARY MAGAZINE
Picture
MERGE                        LITERARY MAGAZINE                                      WINTER 2020

POLITICAL POEMS

TEXT TO RESURRECT REVOLUTION 
BY BOB MCNEIL

​"BEAUTY OF BLACK" 
BY ADWOWA MINUS  
 
WINTER ACROSS AMERICA 
BY GWEN RUSSELL GREEN
 
OBAMA 
BY BOB MCNEIL

 
SMOKE ON THE GROUND 
BY HZAL ANUBEWEI
 
KWANSABA: MEMWAR FOR THE FALLEN & THE RISEN 
BY EUGENE REDMOND
 
REPROVED 
BY TAMARA J. MADISON
 
AMERICA’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL GRILL 
BY BOB MCNEIL
 
ALL BLACK 
BY ADWOWA MINUS  
 
1619 THE GOOD SHIP 
BY MICHAEL SIMANAGA, PHD
 
BEFORE AND AFTER THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES 
BY MALKIA M’BUZI MOORE
 
FLORA 
BY TAMARA J. MADISON
 
BEYOND THE BLUES 
BY MARI RICE
 
A TONE MEANT FOR REPARATION 
BY DARLENE ROY
 
IN THE ABSENCE OF WAR 
BY RASHIDAH ISMAILI  


BITTER REALITY 
BY DARLENE ROY


BILLBOARD 
BY TAMARA J. MADISON
 
TWO POEMS: TIME BUM AND GREAT !?! AGAIN BY ROSCOE 
“ROS” CRENSHAW
 
AMERIKAKA 
BY CHARLOIS LUMPKIN
 
LOST BOYS 
BY ERIC F. MAXIE
 
SHOULDERS OF GIANTS 
BY PATRICK DUNCAN
 

PROTECTED
BY ZADI MAYNARD

 

RE-RIGHT THE TWEET 
BY DARLENE ROY

 
LITTLE ROCK/GOTTA ROLL GRAND FORK, NORTH DAKOTA SUPPER CLUB GOSPEL,
SEPTEMBER 17, 1957 

BY DAVID MILLS
 

REQUIEM FOR TROY DAVIS 
BY GWEN RUSSELL GREEN

CUFFED AT THE CURB 
BY CHARLOIS LUMPKIN

A KWANSABA ELEGY FOR MICHAEL BROWN 
BY CHARLOIS LUMPKIN

TWO POEMS:  BLACK AND BLUE AND ON HOLY GROUND 
BY JAYE P. WILLIS



 

  • HOME ISSUE #3
  • Mission and Content
  • About US
  • POETRY AND PROSE
  • BLACK MUSIC PHOTO ESSAY
  • ESSAYS ARTICLES AND FICTION
  • VISUAL ART GALLERY
  • BIOGRAPHIES
  • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
  • Support Merge Literary Magazine
  • ISSUE #2 CELEBRATING BLACK WOMEN
  • FEATURED WRITERS AND ARTISTS
  • MERGE LITERARY MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION
  • Mission and Content
  • About US
  • POETRY
  • ESSAYS ARTICLES AND FICTION
  • Multimedia Art Review
  • PHOTOGRAPHY CELEBRATING BLACK WOMEN
  • ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
  • WRITERS AND ARTISTS BIOS
  • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
  • ISSUE #1 POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
    • Mission and Content
    • About US
    • POETRY
    • PROSE
    • ART ILLUSTRATION
    • ESSAYS AND PLAY
    • MULTI-MEDIA QUILT REVIEW
    • WRITERS AND ARTISTS BIOS
    • SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
    • Support Merge Literary Magazine