THE INJUSTICED WILL RETURN HOME ONE DAY
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
Our inaugural issue features poetry that reflects the theme, “The Injusticed Will Return Home One Day”. While some of these poems pay homage to our fallen BIPOC brothers and sisters, specifically, some of them also address other forms of injustice. During these times of severe racial injustice and global crisis, it is important that we come together in solidarity to express the idea that poetry can serve as a healing agent in times of crisis.
MASTHEAD
Thomas Kneeland, Editor-in-Chief
Camara Wallace, Poetry Editor
Patrick Springer, Poetry Editor
Aspen Brown, Poetry Editor
Eric D. Saunders, Poetry Editor
POETRY
Gian Carla Agbisit
“Police” & “At Home”
Devon Balwit
“Meditation App Fail”, “In Those Years on the Eve of Revolution”
Sam Baker
“Under the Porchlight”, “racist”
Jerome Berglund
“Violating Curfew”, “Valid Concern”, “This Lack of Hairdressers”, “Hitching”, “We Need You Out Here”
Jacqueline Jules
“Where the Bread Tasted Better”, “Strange Fruit”
Tain Leonard-Peck
“Anxiety in the A.M.”
Giovanna Lomanto
“Black lives do matter, and I know that you know this, but I want you to care.”, “If you listen, you can hear the sound of a tree falling.”
Alexandra Melnick
“When I Saw St. Frida”, “Port Gibson”
Ben Macnair
“Astronauts Returning”, “Every Day is Like Sunday”
Micaela Michalk
“Disillusioned”, “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”, “What is Art”
Briana Olivares Rodriguez
“Why is it so hard for some people to say Black Lives Matter?”
Mara Schneider
“Equal is Key”
Frankie Soto
“Go back to your country”, “12 miles from Cancun”, “How does a prayer sound in Tijuana”
Olivia Stogner
“Breonna’s Heaven”, “So You Don’t Feel Alone”, “Wyatt Outlaw—Feet on the Ground”, “Those Who Comfort”, “Breonna Taylor”
henry 7. reneau, jr.
“perspectives in paradox”
Philip Vassallo
“A Playwright Speaks”, “Last Words”, “Race Class”
Celeste Williams
“Vibrations Ad Infinitum”