Walking down the street, I brush against people and, for one split-second, get a sense of them. Then they disappear. I find this hard to accept. All that individuality! So precious and mysterious. I try opening my mind to their beauty, ugliness...
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WE FOLLOWED THE AMERICAN FLEEING, FLED
The ash sift settling on our cars and lawn furniture, the towering gray cumulus clouds, the smoke everywhere searing our eyes, throats, burning lungs, choking the shrouded streets, the way the cremated fumes seeped through the front door’s leaky...
Burger Revolution
Since its grand opening in Nepal, everyone has been raving about McRonald’s. You see, we’re such a poor country even McDonald’s hasn’t sniffed us out. Thirty-eight thousand locations in over hundred countries, and who’s ignored? Kathmandu, Nepal...
Revolutionary Letter to Diane di Prima
“not killing all the white men, but killing the white man in each of us. . . .” —D. d. P., “Revolutionary Letter #32” Even now there is the desire, but what to do after Jan. 6— the militias and the “boys,” their guns and zipties, crude noose...
Dear Miss Metropolitan: An Interview with Carolyn Ferrell
In 1996, a teenage Black girl disappears from the streets of Queens. Then another. Then a third girl, of Puerto Rican descent, steps into the street and isn’t seen again. The disappearance of these three girls doesn’t stop the world or make...
Just Her Luck
If Holly put a penny in a gum ball machine, gum and a gold plastic ring would come out. At the Holy Names carnival, she’d lay a poker chip on a number, watch the wheel spin, and collect a stuffed animal.“I swear, you are the luckiest kid,” her mom...
Poems By Diane Seuss
[Yes, I saw them all, saw them, met some, Richard Hell] Yes, I saw them all, saw them, met some, Richard Hell, Lou Reed, Basquiat, Warhol, Burroughs, Kenneth Koch, and it all left me feeling invisible or fucked, fucked sideways, fucked by a john who...
Three Poems By Ashley M. Jones
Mary, Don’t You Weep, or, Mary Turner Resurrected When Mary Turner threatened to press charges for the wrongful lynching of her husband in Brooks County, GA on May 19, 1918, she was strung upside down, her clothes were burned off, and her unborn...