supply and demand by Evie Shockley
“most people don't know how to save black boys. // black boys don't grow on trees.” — Evie Shockley
What the Wind, Rain, and Thunder Said to Tom by Tyehimba Jess
“Become your own full sky. Own / every damn sound that struts through your ears.” — Tyehimba Jess
Mountain, Stone by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
“Do not name your children. Let them live / nameless, seal their eyelids / and sell their voices to the nightingale.” — Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
If Life Is As Short As Our Ancestors Insist It Is, Why Isn’t Everything I Want Already At My Feet by Hanif Abdurraqib
"I am a simple man. I want, mostly, / a year that will not kill me when it is over."
what they did yesterday afternoon by Warsan Shire
"later that night / i held an atlas in my lap / ran my fingers across the whole world / and whispered / where does it hurt?"