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[Poetry Friday] Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Her Ode to Black Feminist Fugitivity

July 28, 2017 // 9 Comments

Fats here. In her Note, Alexis Pauline Gumbs writes, “This space, which is a temporary space, which we must leave, for the sake of future travelers and our own necks, [...]

[Poetry Friday] Wildly into the Dark

July 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fats here. I began sharing poems by Tyler Knott Gregson in October 2015. I randomly came across his works online and loved them ever since. “Wildly into the Dark: [...]

[Poetry Friday]: Unboxed

June 23, 2017 // 21 Comments

Iphigene here! I’m unofficially back for Poetry Friday. Today, I’m sharing a rather old poem. I wrote this last year and only got to finish it around September [...]

[Poetry Friday]: To Mimic the Womb

June 9, 2017 // 14 Comments

Iphigene here! Today, I share another poem from the Open Spaces series. This series were poems inspired by paintings I made. I did the series as an exercise in writing. [...]

[Poetry Friday]: Canal Children

June 2, 2017 // 18 Comments

Iphigene here! I’ve just come back from a stressful week. I spent a week in Singapore for the AFCC 2017 (will be blogging about that soon) and a 5-day creative writing [...]