Poetry

Malcolm X: The Last Interview (February 21, 1965), with Vogue (via James Baldwin)

By George Elliott Clarke
I /   / Race is a masque— / brown, in my case; /   / and it’s a mosque— / blue, in our black case. /   / In my opinion,...

When the Dead Outnumber the Living

By Julian Gobert
When the dead outnumber the living they will spill forth from purgatory and come back to / reclaim their condos.  They will take back their steak knives, they will uncork your /...

Into the mouths of payphones

By Danielle Janess
Night after night through cities and villages / she says his name: / Amsterdam, Namur, in Paris, / Sagres, Ronda, San Sebastien and Anglet / Hallo, ist — zu Hause? /   / Berlin,...

[sic]

By Taryn Hubbard
sic is an extremely simple irc client. Don’t take this personally. It consists of less than 250 / lines of code. It’s nothing shut eye won’t wipe. It is the little brother...

[07]

By Jonathan Ball
It is all a dream. [28] /   / An angel arrives. [49] /   / Reinforcements penetrate. [38] /   / They are defeated by a virus. [12] /   /...

[02]

By Jonathan Ball
The book that you read, seeking something. [60] /   / The book that you write, to discover. [52] /   / The book for which they burn you. [35] /  ...
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– 35th parallel –

By Doyali Farah Islam
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Tornado Chaser

By Roxanna Bennett
My son scans the sky for supercell storms / the way I once watched ladders of light for signs / of the Rapture. He waits for squall lines to form, / cumulonimbus...

Greg: Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan

By Keith Inman
It was a mean / while, and fuckin’ warm, /   / as we swarmed / a pact-racket of battle-hungry / rag-tag, mis-fits /   / when it all kettles / into...