changing of the tides - Emma Conlon
I follow your footsteps down to the shore / your golden hair waving in the sea breeze / you sway with the crashing waves...
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Mag 20/20
- 5 days ago
Hold up, I’m gonna vom - Mansi Garneni
i puked in the bushes while my bestie / held my hair back from my face / sidewalk scratched my knees up...
Mag 20/20
- Sep 7
Renaissance - Asela Lee Kemper
I am more than another sad poem / I am my mother’s words / written in the stars forming into / constellations that guide me...
Mag 20/20
- Sep 5
I won’t translate everything - Dina Klarisse
I have a confession. There are landscapes of my mother tongue / I do not wish to share with you...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 31
Ringing - Kelli lage
My buried grandmother always calls when I’m sleeping / I will answer as if I am extinct / as if I am a wing...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 29
Leaves fall into a bubbling tarmac - David Agyei-Yeboah
Leaves fall into a bubbling tarmac. They swim to surface; the tarmac cakes and I finally see the train wreck..
Mag 20/20
- Aug 11
i am unfit to raise daughters - Jessica Nirvana Ram
i’ve always wanted children / at first / sons / sons are less likely / to inherit my mouth / stuffed full of cotton balls...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 11
November 2022 - Jessica Nirvana Ram
When I tell my mother I’d been hit on three times / during my trip to NY, she is pleased...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 9
Something Old - Lydia Gompper
Oh, to be you again. To be eight, ten / thirteen. To be secure in the daily invariables...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 4
Why My Brother Refuses to Speak Spanish When My Mom Says Te Amo - Daren Colbert
Because I don’t want to /
cold and hard like water from the spigot / in our abuela’s bathroom / every morning.
Mag 20/20
- Aug 4
poem for derek/trayvon - Daren Colbert
Trayvon Martin walked into a 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida— / a bag of Skittles, a can of Arizona iced tea...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 4
A-Side - Daren Colbert
To grow old & Black in America is to search / among the names buried beneath & not find yours / blooming...
Mag 20/20
- Aug 2
the only good thing - andrea lianne grabowski
"i’m eighteen & holding you,
your knees hooked over my elbow,
bangs cut straight just like mine at two...."
Mag 20/20
- Aug 2
perception//performance - andrea lianne grabowski
"when it’s too cold, my car speakers falter, like they forget you made them into thunder..."
Mag 20/20
- Jul 26
JO - RACHEL SARUSKI
"I go back to The Honeywell in Harlem on Broadway / walk down the hidden concrete stairs off the sidewalk..."
Mag 20/20
- Jul 26
Questions For My Friends After I Come Home From A 36 Hour Date - RACHEL SARUSKI
"Has anyone ever invited you to the premiere of a play they’re working on in a small, hole-in-the-wall / theatre in the city?"
Mag 20/20
- Jul 24
address to a past version of my body - nat raum
"you are a sheet of paper—crumple
and you keep your shape."
Mag 20/20
- Jul 24
boo’d off the stage - nat raum
"shame was taught to me by experience / around the time i was swallowed by a ghost..."
Mag 20/20
- Jul 19
DISCOVERING MY OWN DIVINITY IN THE SWIMMING POOL - Savannah Jones
"Summer has returned and with it I am /
reborn / a minor god whose followers believe..."
Mag 20/20
- Jul 11
aches and bleeds - Jordan Miller
"The point of your elbow /
digs a hole between my shoulder blades / as I lie next to you..."
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