Writing is an act of resistance
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Violent Citizenship
By Sakeena Amwaaj Existence stamped onto flattened prison. Fluid bloodlines dried into lines invisible on land. Lines prick us without our knowing, weaving fortunes weaving curses upon generations. Sakeena Amwaaj is a pen name, used because of the political climate in both the United State and the poet’s home country. Photo credit: perceptions (on…
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In the Trump Era, Factory Workers Send Secret Messages
By Amy L. Freeman resist Last Thursday, I found that single word scrawled in black Sharpie on the cardboard inside a package of photos I’d ordered. Odd, I thought, turning over the first of my photos. The pictures were of me with my children, holding signs at the recent Women’s March, smiling and determined…
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You’re Nightly Run Down
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Inaugural Bird Omens
By Annie Connole inauguration (n.) 1560s, from French inauguration “installation, consecration,” and directly from Late Latin inaugurationem (nominative inauguratio) “consecration,” presumably originally “installment under good omens;” noun of action from past participle stem of inaugurare “take omens from the flight of birds; consecrate of install when omens are favorable,” from in– “on, in” (see in-…
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Night Falls Before Morning
By Erica Gerald Mason On Sunday night I began to read news on my phone, after an afternoon spent fighting a chest cold and watching old episodes of new television shows. I scanned three headlines with escalating alarm and concern, turned the phone off, and returned to the glow of the larger screen. Blinking away outrage…
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Inaugural Haiku
By Carla Drysdale Damp Geneva seeps into our cold feet marching to protect women. Stone sky tablet for black calligraphy of trees writing history. The new president says he’ll get rid of columns when building new rooms. The new president says he’ll protect you from them and then the rain falls. The president’s mouth puckers when…
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Moscow Mule Recipe
By Neleigh Olson Ingredients yellow hair golden showers systemic misogyny an angry base James Bond villains (Russian) Twitter account Directions First, respond bigly, and I mean in a number one way, a terrific way, with the best words, to the number one tricky to our great nation. DO NOT COMPLETE SENTENCES. Keep one foreign…
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Mother
By Noah Leventhal the desert smells like Mother stones sundial their way across the dunes reeking of dust and blood and evaporation a lizard skitters across the scattered sand each wretched bump in its thorny skin a testament drooping brittle grass reaching up and down with thirst when the ground shakes when the wind dies …
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Take a Knee
by stephanie roberts for Colin Kaepernick Uncle Wade (that stubborn mule), grumbled “Round them up!” In what direction? I wondered. The cane teams of the Caribbean? or way back to the cup and knuckle of Gold Continent and trace origin. “He’s half white.” I say, spitting cherry seed against our worn bleached deck a…