Words for My Twelfth Grade English Class on Inauguration Day after Reading Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” Don’t Mayflower yourself into forgetting that today, once again, your government has wrapped you in a kerosene embrace, has gripped you like a cavalry...
What’s jazz got to do with it? The sun had written the smell of winter on his silent face, while the birds outside his window sang receiving the nightfall; his room was filled with Miles’s jazz: blues and melancholic music keeping company to his inert thighs, the...
How I met Pablo Neruda, Celia Cruz, Trinidad Torregrossa and Benny Moré by George Nelson Preston In my senior year at CCNY I had become deeply interested in the events that were unfolding in Cuba. I joined Fair Play for Cuba. The Fidelistas were ensconced in...
Seth Fogelman, Unsplash *** To Be A Native Linguist “…You don’t have many friends, and you cannot depend on the few you have. You could not return to your parents’ house because nothing grates you more than appearing as a failure before them…. ...
EMILY AS A DEER HEART I put my teeth to Emily. I left an identifiable impression there. All crimes committed amidst that mythology will carry my name with them. This season, I hunted so lazily & since I could not take a bite of her with me, I knew that I would...
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