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Two Poems By James Toupin

This poem is published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.  Pain Clinic The...

Two Poems By Laureen Summers

These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.  When I...

Ode to Spouses of Diabetics and How They Find Us by Ephraim Sommers

This poem is published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.  ODE TO...

Surgery by Makena Metz

These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce.  Surgery Waiting is...

Two Poems by C L Bledsoe

These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. This Is...

Two Poems by Tessa Augustyniak

These poems are published as part of the Amplifying Disabled Voices special section, selected by editors Christopher Heuer, Marlena Chertock, and Gregory Luce. What Do...

Two poems by Addy Lugo

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

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,...

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Two Poems by Bill Ratner

They Send Me to the City to Stay with My Auntie I hang my jacket in the hallwayher apartment is oldmade from shoestring potatoesit smells...

 IF FREEDOM DIES by Alan Abrams

IF FREEDOM DIES What’s next for us, if freedom dies–For those of us, they smear as woken—must we wear their yoke of lies? They seal their...

Three Poems by Lesley Younge

Rock Paper Scissors Water. water to rub rock smooth water to rust scissors shutwater to dissolve paper into nothingnessthen return it to the cannibal trees waterwaterwaterwaterwaterwaterwater water to...