Past contributor Danae Younge’s poetry chapbook is here! Micro-collection Melanin Sun (–) Blind Spots received the 2022 Florence Kahn Memorial Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. In this micro-collection, Younge explores the ambiguities of biracialism after the early passing of her African American father—representing blurred racial identification with moments of redaction, strikethrough, … Continue reading “Melanin Sun (–) Blind Spots” by Danae Younge Out Now!
After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
By Danae Younge After a Sandstorm Your peck extracts remaining wind from a cooled forehead. The ruins pile up before us, meld like a glaring flame pinched on the horizontal landscape, a solute to the wallpaper. Yet the overlapping eye of our circular universes squints further with mine as I look at you, as we … Continue reading After the Sandstorm and Other Poems
Ms. Violet
By Danae Younge We ran through the dark, the bottoms of our shoes sinking into the sand with every step. Terry was too excited to allow that to slow her down, though, she raced towards the moving beam of light which rotated steadily from the lighthouse like a planet on orbit, illuminating little slivers of … Continue reading Ms. Violet
Academy of the Heart And Mind 