...on-fiction and have two poetry books out, I could not get a job. ANY JOB.
I became homeless, having NO family to turn to. What Bloomberg did when I complained about homeless shelters is despicable...
I cooked all afternoon and set the table for eight. Wanted to talk to you, thought of you making sandwiches and smiling at strangers in their lunch meetings. When my guests finally arrive, that is whe
Police
barricades were set up everywhere, including right where I happened to be
standing. The crowd swelled and pushed. There was no escaping. I found myself
pin
In the shadow of Claremont Park where years later I’d see my first dead body I mastered the art of running bases.
In that not-quite ghetto section of the Bronx where gloves and bats and balls
My son, grandson and I are watching the Red Sox and Yankees battle it out on television. Now, admittedly, Jess and I have to explain a good deal of the game to five-year-old Conley, but he's a f
I learned to fall in love at a young agewith everything capable of being broken.But a color blind child didn’t know anythingbetter than static, some square box and its black fuzz.That television could
In front of a hole in the right field wall my father spreads the tarpaulin to protect the grounds from a sudden downpour.
His once slender waist now bulges like the Babe’s, too many center-cut pork
my whiskey story is not unique
an age fourteen wild girlstraddling the banister, not to make the stairs creak,sneaking out the back door of a sleeping housemy father wakes hours laterto my panicked
Voyeuring him bit by bit slip her soiled white undiesup, then little by little lift her dead-weight bodydown off the elevated handicapped john; nowI recall a once freckled red-haired, smilingyoung wom
MacDougal and Bleecker
We were talking about our aging parents when my friend asked if I take notes. I thought she meant notes toward stories, but she meant notes to myself that I’d read in the futu
...ith lighter skin. Plagued with the “good enough” questions all my life, as a darker toned Black girl in a family of fair-skinned beauties, I have been battling the urge to purchase skin bleach ever si...
...ound her, and told her I like to read detective novels and the DSM-IV; to cook a giant brunch so my whole family can come over and eat it; to go on my message boards to fight about records. I remember...
...bsp; One really disturbed couple even wanted to reenact the episode of All in the Family where Edith was raped, with the husband playing both Archie and the rapist.
There wer...
...let: Probably all the above. Although I will say that, as someone who grew up in the Midwest in a hunting family (I have a freezer full of buffalo and elk steaks at the moment), his anti-gun stance ha...
...ter and poet, teaches a poetry workshop and hosts her own open mic poetry venue in Cleveland, OH. She has family in the NYC area and when she visits, the experience is always an artistic motivation. ...
...not surprisingly, we didn't find what we were looking for in Virginia and moved back 11 months later, our family now a fantastic foursome as our daughter India was born while we were down there. Still...
...s and more·but there will be time for that in the weeks that come. Right now, I choose to speak of you-my family , my friends and the love I am want to make religion and ritual. Understanding that in t...
...othing of either.
Taylor Mali is a former teacher turned full-time poet, the 10th generation in his family to be born and based in New York City. One of the original poets to appear on the HBO s...
...ne ill-equipped for coping when the sky actually falls." And the sky literally fell on the author and his family that day. They lived in the towers' shadow, in TriBeca, and their daughter was in schoo...
...ter and poet, teaches a poetry workshop and hosts her own open mic poetry venue in Cleveland, OH. She has family in the NYC area and when she visits, the experience is always an artistic motivation.
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