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The Veil

By Charles Blackwell on February 1, 2020
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Old school musicburnt orangepeople at the table across from meordered spaghetti.The waiter jerked, stumbled,and it fell to the floor. She

Feelings

By Keyanna Hardison on February 1, 2020
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
These feelings feel me up. The feeling of feeling like I’m not good enough.It’s so cold I’m cold to the

Untitled

By Jordan Singh on January 1, 2020
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Skating through the city alone Or a-gangPushing on my board is my own paradeTo take a rest, sparkit to ease

Think it over carefully

By Skinny on November 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
(Angel Brinston) Every night I lay my head Upon my soft by lonesome bedI dream of making love to you

Untitled

By Jordan Foster on November 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
StartedStrange. Begging—possible ending. Fueled off feeling of well being tooken from what I am seeing. Who’s watching? Keep pretending to

My Herstory

By Joanna Bragen on November 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Your history Is not my her story I did not tell you to Rape and pillage the landSuffer the children

Let it be

By Claire J. Baker on October 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
In the changing skiesof circumstancelet us beas flocks of birdsguiding each otherby touching wings.

I want to see you

By Jordan Singh on October 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
I want to see youLet’s dive into the deep blueY’all need to hear my point of view Yes we don’t always

The cycle of destruction in American cities

By Charles Blackwell on September 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
Angel Brinston and Inti Gonzalez A frame, a skeleton, another crane, another construction site, a point of destruction, a high

Eating A Mango

By Julia Vinograd on May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
I am eating a mango with many paper towels, getting the sweet sticky stuff all over me. I am a child, eating a mudpie of the sun and not interested in all the things I’ll understand when I grow up.

Street Musician

By Julia Vinograd on May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
(Enera Wilson) He sits on a blue egg crate under a street corner tree, His long crossed legs balancing a

Downhill

By Julia Vinograd on May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
I don’t have a home and I live here all the time.
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