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Two Poems by Micki Topham

Micki Topham is a finalist in the 2025 DC Poet Project, an annual open-to-all poetry competition created by Day Eight to support and surface...

Three poems by Tony Medina

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...

Two Poems By Alana McDonald

These poems are published connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community. The Guide (the flowers)First,...

Two Poems By Summer Tate

These poems are published connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community. Wright is why I...

Two Poems By Adriana Moore

These poems are published here connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community. Where I’m From The...

Three Poems By Jada Carter

These poems are published here connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community.  It took too...

Three Poems By Susan Mockler

These poems are published connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community.  Imaginefor Natalie...

Three Poems By Kimberly A. Collins

These poems are published here connected to the partnership between the Mid-Atlantic Review and Howard University and a recent event for the Howard community. Mother’s...

Four Poems by Hari B. Parisi

Change of Elevation When we first moved here, birds—red-headed house finches, I believe,a family—twittering high up in the blue spruce that hangsfrom the neighbor’s yard. You...

Two Poems by Antreka Tladi

ZULU, THE LANCE AND THE LANGUAGE First, the language refused to enter my ear and be understood. Instead I chased words around, words that hovered beyond grasp and...

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Two Poems by Yvette Neisser

Ode to the Analog Age Praise the newspaper tossed each morning by a boy on a bicycle, ink of newsprint, thinness of paper. Praise phone booths...

Three Poems by Kay White Drew

WHERE ARE THE SUPERHEROES?A jubilant time, the era of the superhero,that decade when a vital young President,rejuvenated by a medical breakthrough,laid down plans for...

Two Poems by Ellen Carter

The night before I have not met you yetbut I knowyou will be herein the morning.I am waiting.So are you.Will you rememberyour creationmade of trust...