Articles tagged: poem

We Wear the Mask at the Club

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.

NEBULA PAINLESS FOAM PET

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

From Ponte de Dom Luis

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

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