(Album cover of John Coltrane’s 1965 jazz record A Love Supreme) Listen to Coltrane. His music is always destined to reach human intensity and …
Forging through the Flame: A Review of Bola Opaleke’s “Skeleton of a Ruined Song”
(Review) There is no way to best prepare for the creation of the world. And yet, here is a recommendation to do exactly this. …
Weekly Feature | Fragile by Gayle J. Greenlea
photo : Peter Shefler, visual artist and poet We collide in a tender fugue reeds with slender necks jostling against each other by wind and …
Death Rattled, by Killah Shark
Death rattled last breath of dying nigger shot by cop best friend …
Welcome NEW COLUMNIST! Killah Shark | In Too Deep
Formerly of Hittite Empire Black Men Performance Art, Killah communicates through Terse Verse.
Book Nook| The Spirit of Baldwin Compels Me
Overview In the wake of Black Lives Matter, against a backdrop of ‘America First’, here are 31 poems from the pen of …
BREAKING NEWS! Core of the Complaint
by Hokis, Founder & Senior Editor
The
whistle, white
reconstruct{shun}
had done before.
FEATURED POET: Jude St Jude | Future
“I have decided to take a change
and come back to live in the place
that killed me most of my time….”
The White Head | Editorial
Inspired by the words of Eddie Glaude, “Blaming Trump is too easy: This is us.” Eddie Glaude, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, speaks to American culture, racism in 2019 and how President Trump is the “manifestation of the ugliness that’s inside us.”
image: from Plewig and Kligman´s “Acne and Rosacea” text.










