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  • May 30, 2017By Ariel Zedric

    20 minutes into our Calculus test and the kid behind me taps me on the shoulder. I know better than to think he’s flirting, he just wants help. “What’s the answer to number seven?” I want to tell him to figure it out himself. I want to explain to him that if he had paid

  • May 30, 2017By Emma Gabel

    I’ve held this feeling before–and even now–this deep mourning when all the world seems lost in this festive fantasy all around me. It often comes when death arrives on holiday mornings, when celebration lives on everywhere but your own home. Loss rarely comes just once, instead choosing to stretch out over weeks, maybe months. Thus,

  • May 30, 2017By Emma Gabel

    There has been this emergence, or a re-emergence to some, of far-right nationalism on a global scale. Ideas that a decade ago would’ve been thought unfathomable, suddenly gaining a new degree of validity in political circles. Globalization, world peace and liberal democracy, all facing a bizarre rejection at an alarming rate. It is as if

  • May 30, 2017By Abby Johnson

    I never thought I would have to face the pain of losing someone so close to me. In January of 2016, I lost my mother, who meant the world to me. Since then, I never really talked about it and I thought no one could possibly understand what I was going through. Eventually, I realized

  • May 29, 2017By Jalen M. Brown

    I originally wrote this poem for the MayFalls Poetry Challenge: Love and Lilies. After I finished, I quickly fell in love with it, and it’s easily become one of the best and favorites poems that I’ve ever written. Poetry, I believe, is meant to be interpreted differently for each person. Individual characters and individual stories

  • May 24, 2017By Cody Dulis

    This is the fifth installment in the Pride Poems series. This poem focuses on the color green and what it represents. This poem is about nature and the endless cycle and connectivity of life. From the depths of the earth Comes life, and holds death Cradling existence in dirt Held by an invisible force From

  • May 24, 2017By Nina Peck

    I’ve grown up with fat shaming surrounding me; “he looks like he’s eaten three of his classmates” “she was a little porker” “oh god she’s huge, how disgusting” I’ve grown up with comments aimed at me; “you look seven months pregnant” “look at that little belly” “you really should start exercising” I’ve grown up with

  • May 24, 2017By Rian Smith

    This is a little poem I wrote just about being a black girl while throwing in a few subtle hints at the unwavering problems black people, most specifically black women face within the United States, nonetheless the world. So this poem is to all my fellow black girls. All I ask of anyone who reads

  • May 23, 2017By Haniyah Burney

    This came out at a time of great uncertainty, when I was feeling very anxious about my future and struggling to find direction. Being hit with the realization of all the time that had passed made me feel…stuck, or without a tether. What is it like To be adrift? You’re reaching out and out and out,

  • May 23, 2017By Dominique Durden

    In loving memory of Darren Seals, Marshawn McCarrell, and the countless others who have died fighting for the cause. I. We lost our leaders. II. Oh, what heavy grief, grief swallowing us whole. What beautiful stars, steadily glowing. Steadily chanting and championing for a cause bigger than us, bigger than them. Steadily dimming. Still chanting.

  • May 22, 2017By Celia Lipton

    I’ve been an artist for as long as I can remember, but recently my relationship with art has changed. I find myself not liking what I create because I feel like I’m lying, being overdramatic. The first draft of this poem included how I don’t always feel like a real artist because I don’t “suffer

  • May 21, 2017By Ariel Zedric

    Spoken word is a word-based performance art that focuses on voice inflection along with diction. Recently, there has been a large push for spoken word poetry with YouTube channels like  Button Poetry and a plethora of other recorded performances. Due to the fact the audience can hear the emotion in the presenter’s voice, spoken word is extremely

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