CONTGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING NOMINEES:
Anne Knupfer for her haiku series, “Lama, New Mexico”
Jen Karetnick for her poem, “Marine Pilots Investigated for Drawing Penis and Testicles with Plane”
Paul LaTorre for his spoken word poem, “Dark Arts”
Anthony Lombardi for his poem, “what happens when the addict finds himself drawn to deeper shades of blue?”
Saba Sebhatu for her creative nonfiction piece, “Gathering Storms”
Mia Willis, for her poem, “Parable of the Hidden Treasure”
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Ana Flores is a sculptor and ecologist. Her work is informed by how pla
2 Poems
Let Me Straddle Your Mind
The Crusader
Yeah bring our electric shaver back, I bought it we shaved each others back
it was important to me
Kwame Dawes
1
Yes, we were country, lived in shotgun
shacks, where the road loses its way
to dirt and live
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Courtesy of the artist and Mizuma Art Gallery
"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to lea
Junot' Diaz
and Edison, NJ
The first time we try to deliver the Gold Crown the lights are on in the house but no on
Elegy & Poem
"We are all the other."
…and find inside a picture,
of myself as a child, sitting
on a small chair, wearing overalls
an
Raphael Perez
To Alex, on turning two
Some say the Ring of Brogar
is the Circle of the Moon.
There is n
March on Washington
An Interview with Cheryl Evans
In a strange twist of what seemed
like reverse vandalism, the Graffiti
Mecca was painted over.
Forest Gander
A Translation
Quassan Castro, poem
Grandson to Grandmother
Wynwood Walls, of Miami has been called "a Museum of the Streets."
Low like the mean dream
of Newark the sky must
have seemed to its builders.
Rickety now, unhingin
At last, the extremes
of his present methods
seemed to offer
the happiest avenues.
The strengthe
5th Limb
Poems
Poem, Knot
Poem, Look This Way
Xue Du, Poem
A woman in a black kimono dyed black hair
disappeared behind a black curtai
Poem:
Behind the War On Women
Raphael Perez
Maria Mizzotti-Gillan
Short Story
Pilar Fraile Amador
poem
Poem
Lady Haiti
David Trinidad
Landzy Theodore
Angelo Nikolopoulos
