At our most dangerous we are two girls in a loft. We spin plans of children’s children: no one’ll play …
Elegy in Which Everyone Stays Alive
After Olivia Gatwood In this poem, missing girls brush their hair and hummingbirds fly out from underneath. I …
TERSE VERSE | More Brothers in Print not In Prison, a poem by Killah Shark
Cell thinking About the blood spilled across bridges Bone marrow freedoms vote across state lines handcuffed freedom fighters standing up …
Nature Finds a Way
by Hokis, Senior Editor remember:nature did not makerevolution, nor thehand-crafted grooves lining the long barrelof the first detached war machine. remember:nature …
Weekly Feature | Kids, by Corey Hill
Photo by Eiliv-Sonas Aceron on Unsplash Your kid should bleed to death. It’s cool. Someone will scoop the flesh. They are picked up. …
Weekly Feature | Another Day in America, by Courtney LeBlanc
Once a man with a gun tucked into a side holster walked by my table. I was eating brunch, …
BREAKING NEWS! Protesters broke into the guarded compound of the United States Embassy in Baghdad and lit fires inside to express their anger
In northeast Ohio, the snow is lightly
falling. My dogs watch from the bed.
I pour my spouse another cup of coffee,
mentioning this news.
Weekly Feature | Fragile by Gayle J. Greenlea
photo : Peter Shefler, visual artist and poet We collide in a tender fugue reeds with slender necks jostling against …
Death Rattled, by Killah Shark
Death rattled last breath of dying nigger shot by cop best friend …
Killah Shark | In Too Deep
Formerly of Hittite Empire Black Men Performance Art, Killah communicates through Terse Verse.
BREAKING NEWS! Instead, Someone Died | Editorial
image and inspiration: CNN’s “A Full House at the Funeral of El Paso Shooting Victim Margie Reckard (while Trump is experiencing a #EmptySeatMAGATour)
BREAKING NEWS! guns are a social glue | Editorial
“A shooting at a church in White Settlement, Texas has left at least 2 people dead and 1 person critically wounded, authorities said” NYT, December 29, 2019 3:45pm.