Two Poems by Jamilah Ali

Do Black People Speak a Foreign Language?Hell to the no. You told me 50 years agoDonna Reed cannot translate jive into Wonder BreadUnderstood soft squishyWarm lolling tongueRolling Rrrrr’s thrumNot a TV...

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Ha Vay’s Baby I’m the Wolf is a call to the wild you’re gonna wanna answer by Hailey Wharram

This article is the winner of the 2024 DC College Student Arts Journalism Competition. Learn more about the 2024 competition on our website here. In...

typing double r’s by Doritt Carroll

typing double r's is a mistake my computer is attached tolike loving the wrong personor eating after 8 it can’t resistgiving me a string of themeach...

Laufey’s spell-binding Bewitched is akin to a storybook fairytale by Sagun Shrestha

This article was a finalist in Day Eight's 2023 DC College Student Arts Journalism Challenge. It was first published in the Georgetown Voice. The charts...

What is Dance? by John Borstel

The attempt to find a definitive definition of dance is probably as old as dance itself, and that’s pretty old. But think about these...

Musings on Tundra by Mare Hieronimus

I am trying to make sense out of the intersection of literature/narrative and dance. In the creation of Tundra, I started with a series of questions. What is it to be a woman in the world, alone?

Two Poems by CLS Sandoval

I Was SilentTW: Sexual Assault At least three Long IslandsI thought I could hangHe was such a gentlemanWalking me homeMemories are only in fragments The officer...

Three Poems by Mary Lou Buschi

Oldest Living Things Spring again, dizzy with babies.Grisly groundhogs crawl from the shed.Frenzied Chipmunks traverse the drive.Cardinals dip and swirl over the doehiding in the...

Two Poems by Sage Yamashita

Blind Spots I remember as a child onceSeeing a mapA replica of an old and ancient map. On the edges of the map were written the...

Full Fathom Five by Liz Lescault

My and Alison Sigethy’s organic sculptures will be shown together in May in an exhibit titled “Full Fathom Five” at VisArts’ Gibbs Gallery in...

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