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ELODIE & THE SEA // The sea whispers A language all its own Rifts of sighs and moans Murmuring bubbles and low rumbling waves If you listen closely as if you were quieting yourself to hear the rushing water heard within a conch shell… Sh
ELIJAH MCCLAIN // Artwork by @detour303, @hieroveiga and @tukeone. ________________________________________ Elijah McClain was 23 years old. He was a loving, compassionate, bright young man. A man who was at the beginning of his life, a life that ha
SER HUMANO // Waking in the night, the quiet is deafening. Searching for the breath of another. We forget we were meant to be interlaced. Down by the sweetness of the rippling river. Resting our bodies in the sanctuary of each other. We. You and I. H
MIDSOMMAR // Lady, You fill my life with the fullness of Your passion. At summer's zenith You exalt desire and with bright promise all is fulfilled in You. Summer's turning leaves behind an echo of joy. At the time of the Great Silence this elusive
EXCERPT // A fragment of the incredible poem, Let America Be America Again, by Langston Hughes. No one is free until all are free. Honoring this day. Juneteenth marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of
IN THE DEW / It’s a strange thing. To be human. To have this heart beating inside. A brain that is constantly working. Thousands of nerves, each important making us... alive. Most of the time we walk around thinking we are eternal. Thinking we
THE FALL // Unasked questions ⁣ Lead to paths that were never meant to be forged ⁣ Or maybe they were, a parallel world of learning. ⁣ The road is dark and winding ⁣ With narrow illumination carving the way ⁣ I go faster, yearning to feel the bitterl
RAW // I crave to drink the night. A hunger for the tepid stars A returning to the shadows that cloak a world unseen. He is the dark water that I yearn for. I listen as his waves hit a rocky shore. Crashing upon stones that are worn from his gent
SAMBA IS POWER // An excerpt By Jayne Cortez in the anthology of poems, Bittersweet ⁣ _________________________________⁣ In Brazil ⁣ I sambaed on the road to Joe Pesoa ⁣ I sambaed to sounds of iron bella ⁣ in state of Bahia ⁣ I sambaed while eating m
MOOD // Toni Morrison and the best veggie coconut curry. Baked 8 loaves of banana bread and raspberry, cranberry crumble bars yesterday just because. Today taking it a little slower. Reading. Planting seeds. Might go for a little dip in the sea. So g
THE WAY YOU NEED // All I can ask of you is to let me love you. However you need to be loved. I’ll do that. For just the presence of you. The existence of your smile. The way I shudder and melt into the curves and edges of our bodies colla
RAÍCES // Feeling more grateful than ever for my family. In all their imperfections the love and education they bestowed upon me. My mama and her dedication to keeping our home one of curiosity and discovery. For the roots to our heritage that
LIBROS PARA NUESTRAS HIJAS // “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of anot
TRACY K SMITH // The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Discover more poetry from Tracy in her book ‘Life on Mars’ __________________________________________ The first track still almost swings. High hat and snare, even A few b
YOUNG ADULT // “The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you’re different- you’re stronger, you’ve seen more, you’ve felt
LANGSTON HUGHES // DREAM DUST // Gather out of star-dust Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust Not for sale.
DETRÁS DEL VELO// A cloak of velvet darkness Veiled those hiding from their own shadow. They moved into the light Seen but never illuminated. Hatred seeping from invisible veins The lack of color stark against white walls Violence that li
WOLE SOYINKA // “Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject. Let me declare very simply th
DECOLONIZE// Our education system needs to be built from scratch. BIPOC authors are not branches of literature, they are the foundation of literature. Here is a reading list. More to come. For all different ages. Reading... can possess the power to t
TONI MORRISON // THE BLUEST EYE // “All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves