Category: Poetry

Creative Work Poetry

Long Hours/An Encounter/Echoes of a Still Life at a Park

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Post date April 27, 2021
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By Carlos Campos Jr

Creative Work Poetry

A Wednesday / Restlessness / Ode to the Distribution Brigades

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Post date April 13, 2021
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By Carlos Campos Jr

Tags Houston Review of Books, Poem, Poems, Poetry

Creative Work Poetry

four poems

by Keagan Wheat
“I had been thinking
about my fading memory
of dinosaurs, my fading
desire to prove a boyhood
by standards I disregard.”

Tags Defunkt Magazine, feature, Houston, Houston Review of Books, Keagan Wheat, Poem, Poems, Poetry

Creative Work Poetry

Ashes In My Mouth

by Jazzib Akhtar
“There’s a harshness to the blue mist I’m smoking. It’s a familiar sting that lingers like unhealed scars.”

Tags Coog-Slam, coogslam, Houston, Houston Review of Books, Jazzib Akhtar, Pakistan, Poem, Poems, Poetry

Creative Work Poetry

INTERROGATED

by Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman
“His wrists are cuffed against the bars of this prison beyond prisons
As if a man with brown skin cannot travel
without implications of terror”

Creative Work Poetry

SAN ISIDRO

by Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman
“You watched men dig holes deep into the earth
Until their straw hats disappeared into the black
Dumping bodies of sugar mill workers into these mass graves”