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Poetry

some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too
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some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too

by Donnie Moreland March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

When Betty said she loved that man, on that morning, I wonder where the words fossilized? If they sheltered in the red wool pattern of his prayer rug? That's if she said it before fasting from her night words. Maybe she said it before noon prayer? knowing. knowing. Keeping play in tact for the six […]

A Decade of Scalawag: Top Stories Each Year
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A Decade of Scalawag: Top Stories Each Year

by Scalawag Editors December 30, 2024December 13, 2024
vanguard poems
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The Vanguard Poems I & II

by Donnie Moreland December 23, 2024December 23, 2024
Climate Resilience
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Climate Resilience: A Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 23, 2024December 26, 2024
solitary confinement dragon
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Solitary Confinement (dragon scales don't bury like gold)

by Donnie Moreland December 20, 2024December 12, 2024
belly of the beast
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sleeping in the belly of the beast

by Moonbow Reign December 13, 2024December 12, 2024
memory work
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Memory Work

by Rasha Abdulhadi September 11, 2024September 10, 2024
Future Street
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Dying on Future Street

by Rasha Abdulhadi September 11, 2024September 10, 2024
Another Nakba
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On the Eve of yet another Nakba, a Dream

by George Abraham September 11, 2024September 10, 2024
In the Open Air
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Love Letter From A Poet Under Empire

by mónica teresa ortiz September 5, 2024September 5, 2024
Saul Williams
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In The Open Air: Saul Williams on Breathing, Reading, and Resisting

by Aurielle Lucier September 3, 2024September 3, 2024
a list of things i did this summer
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a list of things i did this summer

by Aarohi Sheth May 29, 2024May 29, 2024
Pothole
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Pothole

by Jack Morillo May 29, 2024May 31, 2024
Giving Jim Grace
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Giving Jim Grace

by Joshua Burton May 29, 2024May 31, 2024
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East End Preserve, Galveston TX

by Maha Abdelwahab May 29, 2024May 29, 2024
Rejecting cynical narratives of the South
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Rejecting cynical narratives of the South

by Trey Washington May 17, 2024May 17, 2024
Dark Matter, a sestina poem by Kelsey Smoot, is a complicating and uncompromising ode to Black womxn, exploring reflexes and returns of gender.
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"Dark Matter": A poem for grief & other loves

by Kelsey Smoot July 25, 2023July 25, 2023
"What Things Cost: An anthology for the people." Edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones and Emily J. Jalloul. Published by The University Press of Kentucky.
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An anthology for people over capitalism

by Katherine Webb-Hehn July 19, 2023July 19, 2023
Solitary confinement in maximum security prison
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Nightmares & Daydreams: Welcome to maximum security

by Zakaria Amara June 20, 2023September 27, 2023
Kelsey Smoot poetry
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'Some girlhoods end in manhood'

by Kelsey Smoot June 14, 2023June 14, 2023
The cover of Destiny Hemphill's latest poetry collection, "motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life."
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Altars for the alter-life

by mónica teresa ortiz May 16, 2023November 13, 2023
Black Poetics and the Captive Maternal: Joy James asks poets to confront Black violence, using poetry as a means of survival and liberation.
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On the Tensions and (Im)Possibilities of Black Poetics: No Shame, No Devil

by Jon Jon Moore Palacios April 14, 2023November 21, 2023
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'I don't want people to judge me by the music that I rap.' How RICO threatens freedom of speech

by Lil Mobb June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 04: Alive & Full

by Aurielle Lucier April 22, 2022November 30, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 03: The Spaces Between

by mónica teresa ortiz April 15, 2022April 21, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 02: Rituals

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2022April 21, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 01: The Intro

by Scalawag Editors April 1, 2022April 21, 2022
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'All my people come from the hills'

by Alysia Nicole Harris January 25, 2022April 7, 2022
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Scalawag's 2021 Jubilee: A southern ass evening of liberatory lit 🎉

by Scalawag Team November 23, 2021November 23, 2021
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Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021April 19, 2022

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