Bourgeon’s mission, through our online publication and community initiatives, is twofold: to increase participation in the arts and to improve access to the arts. Bourgeon is a project of the not-for-profit Day Eight.
Including poems by Samantha Bender, Talya Levisohn, Nava Cohen, Margalit Feinberg, Kate Schwartz, and Sophie Weinberger. These poems are published within a partnership between...
These poems are published connected to a series of workshops produced in partnership between Day Eight and the East Rock Creek Senior Village supported...
These poems are published connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community.
Broke Tin Pan Alley
Hitchcock...
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...
This article is a finalists in the 2024 DC College Student Arts Journalism Competition. Find more information about the 2024 competition here.
A central thread...
This article is a finalist in the 2024 College Student Arts Journalism Challenge. Find more information about the 2024 competition here.
Floating high above the...
FALLSTREETLIGHT SWITCH
The sodium-vapor streetlightswith fresnel lenses like lidded eyeshave been replacedwith horseshoe-like arcs of LED lights.As the morning stays dark longerand evening comes on...
Cloth & Sun
Chaos greets me at the door—
broken things swirl,
dust motes through worn curtains,
a breath before the next bruise.
You coil like an old cobra,
fangs...
Loop
Goddamn those whippoorwills, we wanted
to shoot them, our history teacher said.
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He’d lived in the woodsiest neck of our district
since childhood. Of course we’d heard them
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too: In...
