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  • Sherry Shahan
    • Giving Comfort
      Visual Art

  • Aaron Jamal
    • Nourishing Deep Freedom
      Prose

  • Alexandra Teague
    • On Inauguration Day, which is also MLK Day, I Consider America as a “Mouse Pie”
      Poetry
    • While the U.S. President Throws A Military Parade, I Stand in Front of El embarque en el arca de Noé
      Poetry
    • Lonestar State
      Poetry

  • Marcie Rendon
    • Decolonized Freedom of Mind
      Prose

  • Laura-Gray Street
    • Canticle
      Poetry
    • worm requiem
      Poetry

  • Janet N. Ryan
    • The More Things Change…
      Prose

  • Susan Deer Cloud
    • Part Irish, In My Family We Are Stained Glass Windows
      Poetry & Visual Art
    • The Partisan’s Granddaughter
      Poetry & Visual Art
    • Partisan Cabin with Wild Mountain Thyme, Slovenia
      Poetry & Visual Art

  • Debra J Stone
    • Freedom! Freedom! Cut me loose!
      Prose

  • Mel Michelle Lewis
    • Poems from Slave Narrative Project 1936-1937, Revisited 2025
      Poetry
    • Belle Ball
      Visual Art

  • Anastasiia Terentieva
    • Motanka2
      Visual Art

  • Delicia Daniels
    • How to be The Barrier
      Poetry
    • Committed in Three-Part Au-ton-o-my
      Hybrid

  • Laura Shaine Cunningham
    • How Did the Moon Get Home Before We Did?
      Prose

  • Pamela Uschuk
    • Dear cedar waxwing,
      Poetry
    • Dear quail calling from the creosote bush,
      Poetry
    • Dark
      Poetry

  • Denise Duhamel
    • Roe v. Wade
      Poetry
    • People Who Say They’ve Connected With Me
      Poetry

  • Brandel France de Bravo
    • Bad Virgins
      Prose

  • Ipung Purnomo
    • Paradigm War
      Visual Art

  • Stephen Gibson
    • Entryways 2021 (Redux)
      Poetry
    • Portrait of Three Young Men, One Holding Umbrella, 1880
      Poetry
    • Boy with a Straw Hat Waiting to March in a Pro-War Parade, N.Y.C., 1967
      Poetry

  • Natalie Coe
    • No Frogging Way
      Poetry

  • Ciara Miller
    • Chapter 1: No One Gives a Fuck About the Poor
      Prose

  • Rossy Evelin Lima
    • I Eat Freedom for Breakfast
      Poetry
    • Tethered Flight
      Poetry

  • Sarah Browning
    • April, 2025, USA
      Poetry
    • To unfurl
      Poetry

  • Allen M. Price
    • Reschooling the Well-Educated Negro
      Prose

  • Jacqueline Johnson
    • A Kind of List Poem
      Poetry
    • This America
      Poetry
    • Los Desaparecidos*
      Poetry

 

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