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Three Poems by Amy Melrose

These poems are published connected to a project supported by the DC Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs. Amy Melrose was a participant in the 2026 Jewish...

Three Poems by Lori Rottenberg

These poems are published connected to a project supported by the DC Mayor's Office of Community Affairs. Lori Rottenberg was a participant in the...

Four Poems by Jennifer Helgeson

These poems are published connected to a project supported by the DC Mayor's Office of Community Affairs. Jennifer Helgeson was a participant in the...

Three Poems by David Ebenbach

These poems are published connected to a project supported by the DC Mayor's Office of Community Affairs. David Ebenbach was a featured faculty member...

Two Poems by Rebecca Bishophall

These poems are published connected to a project supported by the DC Mayor's Office of Community Affairs. Rebecca Bishophall was a faculty member at...

Angels and Bakers by Susan Mockler

This poem is published connected to a project supported by the DC Mayor's Office of Community Affairs. Susan Mockler was a host of Day...

Inheritances by Bliss Goldstein

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...

Two Poems by Dianne L. Knox

Mow Me DownHe was mowing the ditch, not with a string cutterbut with a heavy moweras I walked by he felt he needed to...

A Simple Machine by Eric W. Schramm

A Simple MachineThe noose that was used to hang John Brown is allegedly in the permanent collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Frayed and wild...

Three Poems by Reginald Harris

Untitled: On the Bus (A) Black men (man) glance (s)at each other (me)then quickly look (s) away.A quick check (-ing out),a look to size (each...

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Fox don’t care by Chris Fafard

Fox don’t care Like Fox beauty comes and Godtippy toe testing the edge of awareness untilwith a stroke of his fat brush tail –the color...

There is in the Water by Cassie Premo Steele

There is in the Water What happened here the history I mean thismean thing there right there the bridgewhere they were lynched and who elsewas there and this is always here Ito make them mean something and howcan inanimate objects say...

Two Poem by Sahar Choudhury

occupier artclasswindow is crackedopen to let fresh air in. outsidesunny schoolyard under lovely cloudless sky,the kind of blue beggingto be licked and torn asunderby hungry...