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

Pittsburgh

by Deesha Philyaw

Mérida, Yucatán

by Nadia Escalante Andrade, translated by Cecilia Weddell

London

by Molly Pierce

Upper East Side, Manhattan

by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.

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

The Designated Driver

by Jerald Walker

Geneva Could Have Walked to Switzerland

by Artress Bethany White

A Visit to Inner Sanctum

by Yusef Komunyakaa

The Living Sea

by Tiphanie Yanique