epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

A Good Woman Feeling Bad The blues may be the life you’ve led Or midnight hours in An empty bed. But persecuting Blues I’ve known Could stalk Like tigers, break ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2017-08-13 | Author:Pierre Alex Jeanty

There will be days you hit the ground with love, but you have to get up to fall further in. You must be patient or you’ll never be introduced to ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-07 | Author:Reginald Dwayne Betts [Betts, Reginald Dwayne]

PARKING LOT, TOO A confession began when I walked out of that parking lot. A confession began when I walked Black out of that parking lot. A confession began when ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-07 | Author:Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Where She Ended Up spill (v) let (wind) out of a sail, typically by slackening the sheets. the motel vacancy sign knows its own code. morse. hoarse with its own ...

epub |eng | | Author:Saul Williams

Freedom Virus Found in Monkeys I have never fucked a louder bitch than Freedom on her cycle. That moment when you touch her neck her eyes say “Yes, please strangle.” ...

epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Frank Stewart & Ntozake Shange

some musicians tell me “there’s no work / out there” least ways not for the music they play / joe rasul & david are all in paris / but i ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rowan Ricardo Phillips

LOVE SONG Not who or what you love, but that you love. That to stand there or sit there, to simply Be: this is hard. To look across from you, ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Kiki Petrosino

Doubloon Oath By dead gal or stove bones by rainbow or red bird red bird or cracked spine by silk wrap or jaw jaw by cold bodice, blush wing tick ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Russell L. Goings

Don’t explain, don’t complain. America, just see the purple mountains, Just enjoy waves of amber, Just share the grains, All Americans are the same. The prayerful voice of Calli declares: ...

epub |eng | 2017-02-01 | Author:Rankine, Claudia [Rankine, Claudia]

Before Mbeki, thirty-nine drug companies filed suit in order to prevent South Africa’s manufacture of generic AIDS drugs. Possible trade sanctions were threatened. Then President Clinton did an about-face and ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-23 | Author:Major Jackson

URBAN RENEWAL To work and create “for nothing,” . . . to know that one’s creation has no future . . . this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Samantha King Holmes

Who will save the healers? I get it now Why the creatives get overwhelmed, stuck in that dark place They give, and give, and give but keep so little for ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-08-05 | Author:Nicole Sealey

ii. “Dinner is served,” said Mrs. White, inviting Mr. Boddy’s guests by their noms de plume into the dining room for a precooked reheated repast. Miss Scarlet passed the pickings, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jericho Brown

Another Elegy I want to relax, but it’s April. My students cross and un- Cross bare legs, one thigh, In turn, holding the other Down. Each limb, Every stem on ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-16 | Author:Jericho Brown

Dear Whiteness Come, love, come lie down, love, with me In this king-size bed where we go numb For each other letting sleep take us into Ease, a slumber made ...