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Two Poems by Renee McClellan

By | 2022-12-06T13:43:41-08:00 December 7th, 2022|Categories: Issue 138: 08 December 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Black Listopia I feel like an idiom that drips from Baldwin’s pen “that” angry Black woman negotiating sin I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO! A thing to be had Thick lips, curvaceous hips, or a fashion fad You can’t set me like diamonds Or string me like pearls Pick on my afro, then appropriate my curls I [...]

⌘lzibongo for Black Women

By | 2021-11-26T12:49:45-08:00 December 15th, 2021|Categories: Issue 134: 15 December 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

By Kai Coggin a praise poem, after JP Howard, for my Sisters   praise you Black Woman because you never be praised enough let me lift your collective name here let me strip you of all your forced-on shame here praise you for the stars that unfold when you smile praise you for the way moons [...]