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Poem of the Week - May 12th, 2021 - 'The Lost Woods as Elegy for Black Childhood'

Poem of the Week-May 5th, 2021-'It's Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends-'

Poem of the Week - April 28th, 2021 - 'Leave It All Up to Me'

Poem of the Week - April 21st, 2021 - 'The Afterlife' by Billy Collins

Poem of the Week - April 14th, 2021 - 'Grief Dream' by Carol Muske-Dukes

Poem of the Week - April 7th, 2021 - 'Easter' by Jill Alexander Essbaum

Book Review - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Essay Collection Review: 'Nothing is Wrong and Here Is Why' by Alexandra Petri

Short Story Collection Review: 'The Awkward Black Man' by Walter Mosley

Essay Collection Review: 'The Inner Coast' by Donovan Hohn

Poem of the Week - February 3rd, 2021 - 'Are you in the mood?' by John Kenney

Poetry Collection Review: How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons' by Barbara Kingsolver

Poem of the Week - January 27th, 2021 - 'Disenchanted Corpse' by Margaret Atwood

Poem of the Week - January 20th, 2021 - 'Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop' by John Murillo

Poetry Collection Review: Un-American By Hafizah Geter

Poem of the Week - January 13th, 2021 - 'Thief' by Barbara Kingsolver

Poetry Collection Review: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed

Poem of the Week - January 6th, 2021 - 'Dog Park' by Brandon Brown

Poem of the Week - 12/30/2020 - '& even the black guy's profile reads 'sorry...' by Danez Smith

Poetry Collection Review: Ballistics by Billy Collins