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Stock Lineup [by David Lehman]
Stock Lineup for Charles North, inventor of the form Pepsi SS J. P. Morgan 2B Apple LF Microsoft CF Berkshire Hathaway C Johnson & Johnson IB Deere 3B * Crowdstrike RF DH Johnson & Johnson…
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Introducing poetry from Scotland: Thomas A. Clark [by Robyn Marsack]
The Homecoming the true south and the upland grassthe bright glade and the fallen lintelthe driving rain and the sudden calmthe fiddle tune and the rowan berriesthe ruined chapel and the black water the…
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Ishmael Reed on Tokenism
<<<On Tokens and Tokenism From George Washington to Jill Biden, Black literature has long been plagued by ignorant white patrons, who arbitrarily anoint a few writers as symbols of the Black experience BY ISHMAEL…
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A Summer of Fruit Tarts [by Barbara Hamby]
What says summer more than the gorgeous fruit that descends on the markets? Apricots, berries, peaches, figs, plums, and so much more. I am a dedicated jam maker, so I usually concentrate my efforts…
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Dispatch from a Distance — Turning Toward the Sun [by Cara Benson]
It comes again. Every year. Every year I wonder, how does it happen, this miracle of growth, of green of flower of budding breeding migrating and the prolific swelling smells of earth coming alive…
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An Interview with Jennifer L. Knox [by Aspen Matis]
Jennifer L. Knox is the author of five acclaimed poetry collections: Days of Shame and Failure, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, Drunk by Noon, A Gringo Like Me, and, most recently, Crushing It.…
