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by Elaine Rita Mendus It’s so Different A year since we were here, Arm in arm, lips locked. It’s so different now… Hot, humid, constraining Just like our quick fling. The air sticks to me. So does the regret. What did we gain from our romp? Arms apart, disgust in our hearts. It’s not Read More
“Simply Rob (2011) is a portrait of Bronx based Poet and Activist Rob Vassilarakis. Estranged from his family when he wasjust a teenager because of his sexuality, Rob fell into a world of self hatred and drug abuse. In 1993 he was diagnosed with HIV, he was 22 years old. After years of rehabilitation Rob Read More
Libel I call for an injunction, against all press that use the demonization of my people as a function. This verse I’m sending isn’t for commercial airplay. It’s first amendment speech for my fair say. Not waiting till Lou Dobbs’s ideologies grows to more anti-mexican sentiment-based policies . My impetus is how we’re Read More
by Skyla Campbell On the street in the Honduras heat, A girl with brown hair is selling a sweet smelling pear, She dances and sings hoping to please, Her beautiful brown eyes fill with glee as the streets fill so quickly, She looks to her left, She looks to her right, All she sees is Read More
by Eduardo F. Medrano-Salas In Brownville, where I live for three decades from Corona to Harlem in my funky streets filled with sugar and honey, pulp and mesh blues and Son, rocking and rolling. We are. In Brownville, where postmodernists, post-baroques, gen-xers and millenniums live amongst us and others interconnected with funky Read More
The Journey Give me a reason not to believe that the worst is yet to come. Tell me there’s something I can do that I haven’t already done. Try to explain a way to end all the pain and the strife. Perhaps I got on the wrong path in this long journey of life. Read More
by Lorraine Pagliaro Gaytan Inesperado fue el dia que tocaste mi puerta, reviviendo todas mis rosas muertas. Inesperado fue tu conversacion tan real, Read More
by Jeanette Cobian Iñiguez Que buscar corazon por tus lagos Plenos y profundos en sigilo, Sigilo que ocultas a magos Mas revelas a hombre sensillo. Que buscar corazon de estragos Silenciosos y tercos al alivio. Te busque mas descubri que hablas Con verdad sobrante de palabras
by Julia Perez Little fingers, little hands toil and work all day Big brown eyes, little face – longs to learn and play Dreams can’t come true if she can’t go to school Laboring under the hot sun, life unnecessarily cruel Onions, sugarbeet, fresh berries -what a treat At what cost, a child without opportunity Read More
by Angel Rodriguez I listen as you’re speaking, paying full attention, mental notes, I make no deviation These abundance of thoughts, I feel excitement, you know, my stirred emotionsMy words they come forward enter your ears forming all of theseelaborate confessionsYour manner so inviting, so enticing, softly stimulating verbal declarationsThese simultaneous interactions, chemical reactions, causing Read More