poetry

PoetryJune 4, 2013

Vacation Memories

By Mark Nenadov

Poem of the Week (June 4), by Mark Nenadov

PoetryJune 2, 2013

This is the Spring

By Kent Monroe

“This is the spring I stop chasing love as if it were my tail…”
By Kent Monroe

PoetryMay 28, 2013

Like Any Good Indian

By Shikha Malaviya

Poem of the Week (May 28), by Shikha Malaviya

PoetryMay 26, 2013

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By Simon Perchik

by Simon Perchik

PoetryMay 21, 2013

Swans

By Brendan Sullivan

Poem of the Week (May 21), by Brendan Sullivan

Spill-O…

By Colin Dodds

by Colin Dodds

PoetryMay 14, 2013

Maguayan’s Tree

By Victor Sugbo

Poem of the Week (May 14), by Victor N. Sugbo

PoetryMay 12, 2013

The Year the Prophets Made

By Marq Wilson

by Marq Wilson

PoetryMay 7, 2013

Midnight North of Taos

By Clyde Kessler

Poem of the Week (May 7), by Clyde Kessler

PoetryMay 5, 2013

Bactrian Camels

By Ottilie Mulzet

“it is easier to find your way in the dark// for it is the Light that oppresses and blinds/ that sears into the soulâ€™s tiny folds…”
Weekend poem, by Ottilie Mulzet

In the Magazine

A Word from the Editor

Don’t cry like a girl. Be a (wo)man.

Why holding up the women in our lives can help build a nation, in place of tearing it down.

Literature

This House is an African House

"This house is an African house./ This your body is an African womanâ€™s body..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

Shoots

"Sapling legs bend smoothly, power foot in place,/ her back, parallel to solid ground,/ makes her torso a table of support..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

A Dry Season Doctor in West Africa

"She presses her toes together. I will never marry, she says. Jamais dans cette vie! Where can I find a man like you?" By...

In the Issue

Property of a Sorceress

"She died under mango trees, under kola nut/ and avocado trees, her nose pressed to their roots,/ her hands buried in dead leaves, her...

Literature

What Took Us to War

"What took us to war has again begun,/ and what took us to war/ has opened its wide mouth/ again to confuse us." By...

Literature

Sometimes, I Close My Eyes

"sometimes, this is the way of the world,/ the simple, ordinary world, where things are/ sometimes too ordinary to matter. Sometimes,/ I close my...

Literature

Quarter to War

"The footfalls fading from the streets/ The trees departing from the avenues/ The sweat evaporating from the skin..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Literature

Transgendered

"Lagos is a chronicle of liquid geographies/ Swimming on every tongue..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Fiction

Sketches of my Mother

"The mother of my memories was elegant. She would not step out of the house without her trademark red lipstick and perfect hair. She...

Fiction

The Way of Meat

"Every dayâ€”any dayâ€”any one of us could be picked out for any reason, and we would be... Weâ€™d part like hair, pushing into the...

Fiction

Between Two Worlds

"Ursula spotted the three black students immediately. Everyone did. They could not be missed because they kept to themselves and apart from the rest...."...

Essays

Talking Gender

"In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women...

Essays

Unmasking Female Circumcision

"Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years." Gimel Samera looks...

Essays

Not Just A Phase

"...in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical...

Essays

The Birth of Bigotry

"The psychology of prejudice demands that we are each our own moral police". Maria Amir on the roots of bigotry and intolerance.

Fiction

The Score

"The person on the floor was unmistakeably dead. It looked like a woman; she couldnâ€™t be sure yet..." By Hawa Jande Golakai.