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Innocent stood in the middle of the trailer; the children crowded together in the back.…

Ventriloquist Museum

In the Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, she realizes she is ruined…

Doppler Daze

I’ve become a storm tracker. It’s 2am, electric flashes turn night to day, ignite the…

Are We Not Obsidian?*

for Bekezela Mguni and Saretta Morgan *title after Ellen Gallagher’s exhibit Are We Obsidian? This…

Anger in the Service of our Vision and future

Several weeks ago I wrote about the need to stoke our anger and nurture it…

I am angry, editor

Dear Editor, I thank you for this invitation. Funny, I composed a poem about the…

Wayfinding: A Conversation with Chloë Bass

Chloë Bass’s Wayfinding is comprised of twenty-four site-specific sculptures at St. Nicholas Park, across from…

Eleven: An Autobiographical Assemblage

Clock I was born with a clock. No twin bells ringing as I made my…

Young Rise

I broke quarantine after 11 weeks to take my kid to the D.C. protest yesterday.…

Non-essential Knowledge: Latinx Studies in Times of Covid-19

Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Arthur Schomburg, the black Puerto Rican scholar…