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Walking the Air: An Evening with Amiri Baraka
By Kamaria Muntu 17th October 2012, 15:30 GMT Our world is full of sound Our world is more lovely than anyone’s tho we suffer, and kill each other and sometimes fail to walk the air ~ Amiri Baraka An...
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WorldStarHipHop: The Website that Kills
By Ray L Martin Editor at Large Editor of Pieces of Identity 21 October 2012, 17:15 GMT Around the 11th of October, there was a video clip that went viral of a 25 year-old woman being viciously punched...
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What’s New in the Poetry Scene: Poetic Echos
Femficatio Arts 22 October 2012, 12:16 GMT Spoken Word poetry is a century old medium, with critics suggesting that it dates back to the USA’s Harlem Renaissance period of the 1920s. Some literary...
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On Wednesday My Plane and Vonnegut Took Off © By Gayle Bell
By Gayle Bell The day we both took off My eyes are shut Trying Zen breaths Peeking at the rapidly distant ground By the time we hit the velvet Yeah Go! Your eyes I picture are opened Laughing at the...
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The Price of the Ticket: The Legal Inequity that Leads to Lynching
By Stanford Lewis Guest Contributor 27th October 2012, 13:51 GMT First, let me state for the record that I voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 because I thought he was the best overall candidate....
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CATCHING THE BUS IN DIFFERENT ZIP CODES © by Margie Shaheed
Excerpt from Modes of Transportation: Catching the Bus in Different Zip Codes by poet and writer Margie Shaheed. Note from Editor: This is a gripping tale, a few hundred words paints the American...
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Art of Life, Activism and Poetry: A Memoir
By Askia M Touré My parents were Black Southerners who met at Hampton Institute (now University) in Virginia. They were dedicated students. My father, Clifford R. Snellings, was an agriculture student,...
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Existentialism? © by Souradeep Roy
Existentialism? LETTER BOX KOLKATA – 700031 NO CLEARANCE ON SUNDAY / HOLIDAY A roughly painted logo by an unskilled hand INDIA POST NEXT CLEARANCE …………….. 11 – 05 . . 4 ....
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Tales of Anu: The Lovers (excerpt)
By Askia M Touré “Death, to me, today is like health to the ill, like going outdoors after confinement. Death to me, today, is like the fragrance of lotus, like sitting on the shore of feasting ….”...
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Cyst © by Zakia Carpenter-Hall
Cyst We struggled with the knot until it burst open, he and I, two snakes twisting, transitioning, making a knot to slough skin; but it burst, full of old waste, like an intestine or clogged pore, oily...
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15 Years of Innocence: DNA Evidence Saves a Death Row Inmate.
Reblogged from Pieces of Identity: After the many questionable state executions that have taken place as of late, including the highly controversial Troy Davis execution in Georgia last year, it's good...
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Post-Battle Cries © By Monique Kwachou
Monique Kwachou is a 23-year-old Cameroonian Romanticist poet. Kwachou is inspired by a range of artists, including Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and JP Clark. Her...
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The Monster’s Shock & Awe © by Askia Toure
The Monster’s Shock & Awe It is war that deeply blasts this dismal world: the whirl of raucous noise attacks, seismic shocks in the middle of nightmare, fall-out flack in murder’s ghastly gore;...
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Femficātiō Perspectives: Pamela Plummer
Pamela Plummer is speaking… “…some days it takes all of what we have or dream to be inside to lift the air to braid a path bright with our own custody the wonder of sunlight steeped in the clearing…”...
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