Inheritances
My brother tells me he wants to save me from the shock of finding out what’s in Ma’s will.
Do you want me to read you what she said?
His phone voice...
Long Distance Love
A friend sendsA picture of three chickensStanding in a kind ofFormationOn a road whereThe snow has begunTo retreat
FunnyI tell herI was singing...
Joan, Bob, and Ginsberg
If you had known Joan and Bob
you would have said they were such crazies -
her hauntingly beautiful voice
his wildly cataclysmic fantasies...
Theater Comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan was once accidentally lodged in former president Bill Clinton's cleavage. "I shook his hand and then someone behind me pushed me so I kind of ended up in his man boobs — this was big Bill Clinton — and I got sort of squished in there,"
Tent
Sometimes in the morning,
before opening my eyes,
I dream of our tent,
that tiny green dome.
From behind its walls
thin as skin, I hear birds,
leaves, a brush...
This article is a finalist in the 2021 DC Student Arts Journalism Competition. Click here to learn more about the competition.
By Thais Carrion
Director...
new chairs
i didn't expect whitebut i knew black was outmaybe natural wood
anything to replacethe worn out and breakingcane-bottomed kitchen chairs
chairs that had lastedfar beyond...
This poem is part of a special section of the Mid-Atlantic Review, Celebrating Black History, and selected by editors Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Carolivia Herron, and...
