Drawing on breathless vernacular speech, richly painted images that seem to bloom and blow away as quickly as dandelion floss, and the rhythms and idioms of hip hop, Joseph Earl Thomas’s poem explores what it means to think and speak about other people in a few of the many languages of Black masculinity.

Kirsten Ihns’s ekphrastic poem, prompted by Kim Keever’s photograph Abstract 10245b.

An ekphrastic poem by Yanyi: a sestina prompted by an OK Boomer meme.