Genre: Special Feature

Say enough but not too much. Be kind but don’t present the other cheek.   Move over but never out of sight. Dim the lights but search the shadows.   […]

After June Jordan’s “I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies”   1 I will not stop to shield you from my love my brazen heat of all day lust: […]

woken up, hungover                     with my head turned                           […]

 “Fimmene, Fimmene” is a folk and protest song from the Salento region of Italy that recounts sexual and somatic traumas women experienced working in the tobacco fields. This poem is […]

this morning I ache to touch you   outside the           wind is cold           and rowdy ripping         […]

Sugar sass that smartness, the pert reminder, tight smiled Not Minnie, not Bruce; it’s Minnie Bruce, she corrected with a shiv tongue ready to swing, stab lovingly. Her hand glanced […]

Decluttering before we first moved in together, my lover asked herself, Do I want to take this   with me into the ground? At her funeral, visitors would marvel at […]

reeb reads a plate on a truck passing me on my right on the N.J. Turnpike North. NPR promos its show “White Lies,” the story of 38-year-old Rev. James Reeb, […]

  Overhead the gulls cry How? How? and, yes, I know it’s me making meaning in their voice.            —Minnie Bruce Pratt, “The Gulls’ Cry,” Magnified  […]