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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tondo: Closing the CircleAfter Sam Gilliam’s Something is Going On!—2021
In a muddle of abstractiona face emerges—owl, cat, human—no certainty.Should I turn the canvas,straighten its...
