Two Poems by Pamela Mathison-Levitt

Odds Miracles happen: I believe this,breast bared and danglingdown through a table designedfor radiation treatment.The techs push and pull me into position,marks on my body lining up to deliver targeted dosages.One foam...

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Competition Finalist: Updraft America at the Katzen Museum

This article was selected as the winner of the 2017 DC Student Arts Journalism Challenge, an annual competition designed to identify and support talented young...

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Robert Bettmann reports what Artists need to know about copyright law, and fair use copyright law.

Two Poems by Mecca Verdell

My little sister is beautiful.She has our father’s eyes, brown.Her mother’s skin—light, blinding. Something in her skin draws meand I look like a confused scribble,a...

Four Poems by Rachel M. Clark

Do Bushes Burn in the Desert of Sinai? Is it a regular sight, spontaneous combustion in the shimmering heat?Still, Moses could not have been anointed...

Four Poems by Azalea Aguilar

Sunday Best he blows dandelions for his babies in the corner store parking lotin their Sunday best, following this morning's sermontheir wishes scatter across the...

What is Dance? by Naima Prevots

Dance is organized movement where people express themselves for different reasons to enjoy the body’s energies and messages joined with the spirit and to...

Two Poems by John Johnson

My Ancestors My ancestors picked cotton Worked hard stacked brick by brick The old say the young Just scroll the mouse Facebook Instagram and click They call them the instant Microwave...

Two Poems by Jeffrey Banks

Jeffrey "Big Homey" Banks is a finalist in Day Eight's annual open-to-all poetry competition, the DC Poet Project. Read more about the DC Poet...

Memories by Jasmin Wu

Memories I’ll never forget the kitchen with the drooling wafts of bashful morning sun dribbling through the yawning window.I’ll never forget the kitchen with the...

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