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Red Tornado

I’m Tired | Red Tornado

April 22, 2023 6 0 Shavonne Blades

I’m Tired / with a Capitol T, hard-wired. / It’s not just the hours, / that the work requires.

Poetry

It’s just a word… or is it? | The Soul in the Sun

April 18, 2023 Like 0 Muriel Vieux

It’s just a word / But what if it’s a word born of hate? / What if it’s a word filled with contempt? / What if it’s a word that denigrates? / What if it’s a slur or crude? /…

Poetry

Why we speak… | The Soul in the Sun

April 4, 2023 Like 0 Muriel Vieux

The reason we speak up / It never occurred to you / That sending us to a school / Named after a confederate / Might make us uncomfortable

Poetry

No one cared… | The Soul in the Sun

March 28, 2023 Like 0 Muriel Vieux

No one ever worried / That learning the horrors of our history / Might make us sad and uncomfortable / From the auctions to the lynchings / No one ever cared about that

Poetry

Spring | Whiskey and Words

March 27, 2023 2 0 Ian Dundas

A row of barstools / has decayed from loneliness / and the curb outside / crumbles from neglect.These days / swing from / apathy to anger / and back.

Poetry

Unmitigated gall! | The Soul in the Sun

March 21, 2023 1 0 Muriel Vieux

We’ve have watched you / Come after us and our rights / Time and time again / Every single generation / Every time we start to shine / Every single time!

Poetry

Even when you anticipate it / the sting pulses through you / whether it’s a love interest / who picked someone else / or the local poetry festival / that rejected your work / as unsurprising as it is. /…

Press Releases

East Window Kicks Off New Poetry Series With “Mothers and Monsters”

January 13, 2023 Like 0 Guest Contributor

Opening on January 27, 2023, East Window presents the F R A M E poetry series curated by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz and Toni Oswald.

Magazine

Best Places to See Poetry Performed Live This Summer

June 6, 2022 Like 0 Thomas Rutherford

As summer rolls in and the temperature rises, here are some of the best places you can catch live poetry and feel the warmth within.

Magazine

Bobby LeFebre Aligns, Finds Power: Mightier Than The Sword | The ACTIONISTS Series

June 4, 2021 Like 0 De La Vaca

Bobby sees words as action, part and parcel, intertwined in the very fabric of existence, a grounding motivation for movement, for protest, for love, for community, and for building up in us, between us, and around us a world that…