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Self-Portrait at 52 by Ami Mattison I used to be a colored girl, stretching/her legs on a long Summer day/My imagination/ran away with...

Book Lover by Karma Bennett I ravish books. I like a book that’s been around the block, I can see where others dog-earredly tired of it....

Le plaçage de sucre by Rosa Ponton They called me sugar from the moment I was forced into the world, pulled bloody and screaming from...

To Jasper by Karen Southall Watts On a rare and sunny day, When the sky is blazing Carolina blue, And the rush and whoosh of Vancouver...

Debra Bowling grew up in Northeast Alabama with a love of books and writing. After graduating from The University of Alabama with degrees...

Black Barbie by Elliott Udoh America, we know how much you love your toys From the makers of American girl doll and Barbie Mattel: We are...

Anciens Part II - We Stand by Denise Berry White bones on warped and crooked frames hang elegaic and heavy, with storied groanings and...

Unpacked by Carla Sameth Did you know? This feng shui space in the tropical breeze of your friend’s Savannah house, the big pillared...

“a chance encounter with a classmate from grade school” by Laila Sokera Henderson Hello old friend, Hello stranger. It is so so funny how...

Homemade Hot Sauce by Kimberly Casey The pepper plants keep producing after the first freeze of the year, branches stiff with ice,...

Haint in the Garden District by Malika Hadley Freydberg In all my 238 years, I’ve never seen Colored folk live in this house as anything...

Soniah Kamal is an award winning novelist, essayist and public speaker. Her most recent novel, Unmarriageable: Pride & Prejudice in...

Danyelle Briggs is a junior studying Public Relations and Politics at Oglethorpe University. This summer she is prepping for the...

Shi Evans is a research/project assistant for the Sports and Race Initiative at the National Museum of African American History and...

Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Lost Girls, a collection of short stories called "a varied set of tales from a skilled practitioner...

Arden Eli Hill is a genderqueer (he or they) white writer from Louisiana. To preorder a copy of Bloodwater Parish (an exploration of...

Tia King (she/they) is a 20 year old musician, creative writer, and teaching artist hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. She is an Atlanta...

Ariana Francesca is a Black, mother poet of the Deep South, born and raised in Jonesboro, Georgia. Her work explores the positions,...

Author of Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart Purchase book here: https://riotinyourthroat.com/product/exquisite-bloody-beating-heart-by-cour...

Khalisa Rae's new book Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat Listen to podcast interview: https://anchor.fm/melodie-rodgers/episodes/Khalisa-Rae...