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Just a Woman

By Nailah Starks, Dillard University A woman, I have become a child with no morals. How can you spell beauty without the ‘but’? I have...

Requiem for Terra

By Matthew Prosise, Virginia State University First Place Winner, Poetry, 2022 VSU English Department Writing Contest Cry for lost and...

AWAY

By Kadyn Washington, Virginia State University Second-Place Winner, Poetry, 2022 VSU English Department Writing Contest The sounds of...

My Blackness

By Kadyn Washington, Virginia State University My blackness is not subjected to just my melanin but what lies within The innocence...

The Great Outdoors

By Malia Saygo, Virginia State University My peace is not confined to a certain place or person. My peace shapeshifts into whatever color...

Haikus for the Black Man

By Nailah Starks, Dillard University Beware, he’s coming Have you ever heard him speak? Roses kiss his tongue. Momma who is that? He’s a...

What Now?

By Nailah Starks, Dillard University I am no longer listening to or taking advice from people whose best lines are “It’s gonna be okay”...

Hear the Loud Gospel

By Nailah Starks, Dillard University Her surround sound system was loud enough to confuse its purpose for her to ignore the devil she’d...

In Too Deep

By Nailah Starks, Dillard University Raptured You’ve got me Captured in this prison you call passion. You starve me then tell me you love...

Rest in Power

By Nailah Starks, Dillard University To you, my black girl…my black woman I want you to know that I hear you…that I acknowledge all you...

Changing Minds

By Sherena Willford, Virginia State University If you were to change your mind// I’d be first in line. Except, you’re so fucking fickle...

Untitled

By Malia Saygo, Virginia State University Am I the book on the top shelf? Always in the back of your mind but never important enough to...

Grief

By Ayanna M. Harrison, Virginia State University These Bottled Up Emotions Reach A High Velocity Emotions Swirl Around Denial is...

Who Are We?

By Samaria Rountree, Virginia State University We are dark, light, and all shades in between We are precious, like silver and gold We are...

Read My Mind

By Ashanta Williams, Virginia State University Don’t make me speak because I will filter my feelings out the words Feel my palm Dissect...

All I Can Remember

By Jade Chance, Virginia State University I can’t remember To this day Who he was, Why he touched me Why he abused me All I know is I...

My Favorite Plant

By Yani McNeil, Virginia State University Herbal scents invade the once dull office, This is where we gather to take communion. Be...

Intertwined

By Ayanna M. Harrison, Virginia State University Tangled in your hands Weaved into your love Laced into your lust Woven into you I trust...

Cold Outside

By Thomas Woodhouse, Virginia State University Out your window you hear the breeze but it’s just me, A fan Wishing I could hold your...

The Dream Field

By Samaria Rountree, Virginia State University The sun gently glazes the ground and kisses my face Colorful petals float above stems...