Poetry

Two Poems by Isabelle Foster

This Little Slice of Life This little slice of lifewhere morning mango melts on the tipof your tongue so used to the tasteof sweet-sounding birds beckoningsunrise, paired with the saltyscreech of the...

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Blue Friday or the Bluest Blue by Susan Scheid

I got the Blues so bad my eyes are invisible I got the Blues so bad people think I’m a river I got the Blues so bad I have...
Poetry

Three Poems by Serena Agusto-Cox

When You Want to Stay Plug my wound.Gauze sops blood.Tug my body --electric current to my chest --Tether my soul --soft hand to my heart...
Literary Arts

Two Poems by Annisha Montgomery

.22 My father wants to teach me how to shoot He says it’s a good skill for a young woman to have Last night, I tried to...
In Their Own Words

Living the RAW Dream Through Kaleidoscope by Wood D

Whenever I get the chance to present my work publicly, I’m always honored and humbled by the opportunity. I’ve been working as a photographer...
Competition Finalists

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...
Literary Arts

Cheese by Chloe Yelena Miller

Cheesefor L. C. I want to write you a friendship poembut it wants clichés:calls in the middle of the night,laughs over a late drink. Instead there’s...
Literary Arts

Two Poems by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Who Shot J.R.? I was very young,but I remember all the adultstalking about it. Who Shot J.R.?they would ask each other. I did not know who J.R....
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Blair Murphy talks with Chajana denHarder about Oneness, Shock and Return

Blair Murphy interviews artist Chajana denHarder about her upcoming show at Washington Project for the Arts
Poetry

Two Poems by W. Luther Jett

DARK SURGE This broad valley between tworidges holds greeneven when snow crusts crestswhere rocks breakopen — What dark surgeshakes loose eaglesfrom their nests, underminesfoundation-stones,drains seas?...

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