Two Poems

by Mirjam Frosth

The Behavior of Words: Poems by Efe Duyan

by Efe Duyan
translated by Aron Aji

the dead know nothing about dying

by Chibuihe Obi Achimba

Leaving Lake Ella, I Discuss the
Lexicon of Loyalty with my Son

by Alexa Doran

Hill Country

by Tracy K. Smith

Picketing

by Major Jackson

from "The Black Maria"

by Aracelis Girmay

Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back

by Carl Phillips

On the Isle of Lesbos

by Tsitsi Jaji

Dragon-slayer

by Roger Bonair-Agard

Selection from Tanka Diary

by Harryette Mullen

Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same

by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Immortal City, Immortal Heart

by Afaa M. Weaver

Still Life with Starlings and Man

by Sean Hill

In his lover’s house, a father rises

by Roxane Beth Johnson

Forget

by Adrienne Kennedy

To Phillis Wheatley's Mother

by Cornelius Eady

Afro

by Kiki Petrosino

Geneva Could Have Walked to Switzerland

by Artress Bethany White

A Visit to Inner Sanctum

by Yusef Komunyakaa