"Were We Our Names" and "AL-JABR" by Dahlia Aguilar
Were We Our Names I would be the favorite gardening flower Mexica planted along the aqueducts My father, king of the world wise defender...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Aug 30
- 3 min
La Poesía de Jane Alberdeston Coralin
Loud Prophecies (for Juan Dalmau) I. The Brochure This morning, the Gulf gas station whispers its way through the cinnamon of someone’s...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Aug 30
- 2 min
The Poetry of Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman
Presidential Candidate Attire: A Skinny an angry dance of a man, slick oily messiness. entitled slick. mediocrity drenched in slick. an...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Aug 30
- 1 min
"In the Absence of Breath" by Maudie Bryant
In the Absence of Breath I cradle the space where memories drift. Faint into near syncope. Faint onto hard ground. Faint where I cradle...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Aug 30
- 2 min
"The Whitestone Bridge" by Peter Mladinic
The Whitestone Bridge Stuck in traffic on the Cross Bronx, fingers drumming the steering wheel in my compact Caddy SUV, my gripes are...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Aug 30
- 1 min
"boast of quietness" by Debasis Mukhopadhyay
boast of quietness how sweetly i'm a consolation bursts of merlot clouds lapping against the stillness of i miss you between your...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Jul 15
- 3 min
Kenneth Carroll | Genocide Anonymous | Odes to Reuben Jackson
Reuben in Palestine 3/24/2024 We sit in the Sunday sun of the Arts Walk, It is laughter & smiles that bloom between Sami’s multi-tongued...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Jul 15
- 2 min
The Poetry of Robert Michael Oliver
Prison Brickyard I follow my brother to the brickyard through pastures of Holsteins grazing beneath the tulip poplars as turkey buzzards...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Poetry in Collaboration | Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert Miller
Home I go home with those birds that have left the nest. I am comforted by the hands of trees. The tree with surface roots looks like a...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Jul 15
- 2 min
The Poetry of Ian Ganassi
And They Make It Sound So Easy I’d rather gather ‘round the campfire, Join the campfire girls. They make great cheese. And that’s the way...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Jul 15
- 2 min
The Poetry of Hoke S. Glover III (Bro. Yao)
Winter In its first moments, a gust of wind, my grandfather’s long johns, pockmarked, a crow swims through my dreams, calls my name with...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Jun 19
- 1 min
"White Folks Walk Their Dogs" by Truth Thomas
White Folks Walk Their Dogs (after Gil Scott Heron) Gentrification done bit my brother Phil As White folks walk their dogs His property...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Jun 18
- 1 min
"Drinking Game" by Laura Shovan
Drinking Game Is your glass full? Take a shot for Be'eri, Rafah. Drink for every life lost, for your glass is full. Take a shot. 6/15/2024...
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cherrycastlepublis
- May 13
- 1 min
"The class goes on a nature walk" by Birukti Tsige
The class goes on a nature walk Teach me how to feel moss when I’m thinking of dead children. Laugh: goosegrass. Goldcrest weighs, laugh....
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cherrycastlepublis
- May 9
- 1 min
"Excited Delirium" by Bill Marable
Excited Delirium (for Elijah McClain) Coroner reports his death as “excited delirium” tackle innocence Manhandle Asphyxia tackle 'Mama'...
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cherrycastlepublis
- May 3
- 1 min
"Once" by Truth Thomas
Once in a village called the District, Reuben Jackson’s smile pulled up at the American Poetry Museum, about a fortnight after of his...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Mar 31
- 1 min
The Poetry of Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton
On a Palestinian Girl Escaping Tomorrow She balances tomorrow’s humanity. Dreams outlive brutal thieves. Dreams form crooked smiles....
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cherrycastlepublis
- Mar 25
- 1 min
"Squatters’ Rights" by Bill Marable
Squatters' Rights a raging stampede down at the border tempestuous pugnacious untethered acrimonious tempestuous starved foreboding...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Mar 25
- 1 min
"The Nation's Summer" by Melanie Henderson
The Nation’s Summer Two black children running Wild Begonias Clay Mudpies Wild Peach Juice Sunset Wild Two black children running ...
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cherrycastlepublis
- Mar 1
- 1 min
"aubade" by Debasis Mukhopadhyay
aubade i swallowed my land blasted with light amnesia of shrapnels' gravity amnesia brush of tenderness amnesia swallowed my land i...
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