Poem of the week
We built this self on the sea - Melissa Eleftherion
DIAL-A-POET: Hear the poet in your coffee. Dial 415-484-7919. When you hear the greeting, press 721 Melissa Eleftherion grew up in Brooklyn. A high school dropout,...
Juba for the Teaspoon
Ayodele Nzinga is a multi-talented West Coast-based art visionary, who in the tradition of the Black Arts Continuum, uses performance as a method of inter-intra-group communication. ...
Incubators of the Damned - James Cagney
James Cagney was born in Oakland, California, 1968. He was named after his father, a retired forklift mechanic. His mother, Juanita, worked as a beautician and teaching...
The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was born in New York City to a wealthy family and educated by private tutors. She began writing and translating poetry as a teenager and was...
To the White Fiends - Claude McKay
Claude McKay, born Festus Claudius McKay, was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating...
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through - D.H. Lawrence
Confessions - Augustine of Hippo
HEATHER HAS TWO LEATHER DADDIES - D. A. POWELL
D. A. Powell Professor University of San Francisco D.A. Powell’s books include Repast (Graywolf, 2014) and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012), winner of the...
CLAM SHELL - CAROL CIAVONNE
Carol Ciavonne is the author of Azimuth (Jaded Ibis 2014) and Birdhouse Dialogues with Susana Amundarain (LaFi 2014). She is an associate editor at Posit journal.
(from Like Nebraska) - Sophie Klahr
Sophie Klahr is the author of Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016). Her work appears in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNI...