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dVerse

OpenLinkNight #412 - Welcome to OpenLinkNight everyone. As you know, this is your opportunity to link 1 poem of your choice as this … Continue reading →
3 days ago
Cultural Front

The Intellectual Versatility of Our Greatest Collector - Phillis Wheatley, Augusta Savage, Malcolm X Nineteenth-century African American paintings. Autographed books. Rare coins. Scrapbooks. Letters from Phillis ...
1 week ago
Humbucker Poems

Mort: the Poem - one might think an old monk would know how to die the final Irish goodbye a wake, a funeral with a nice music mix some photos... a yearbook a life book of...
4 months ago
___Chicks Dig Poetry___

Farewell to 2025 - 2025 cost us so much. I almost gave up on writing this blog post—what has become my annual check-in to keep Chicks Dig Poetry from going dormant—but then...
7 months ago
Black Girls Are Easy

Dating For Dummies – How To Gain Power Over Men - Far From BasYc by G.L. Lambert "G.L. I still don't get it. You need to break down dating like I'm DUMB because I've read Solving Single [...] Thanks for...
4 years ago
Blaxploitation Pride

Major Announcements About DAARAC - Hello Everyone, Over the last 12 years, our website has been a leading resource for discovering a rich history of African American film and culture through...
6 years ago
Poets United

For Our Regular Prompts and Features, Fly Over to Poets and Storytellers United - This blog is an archive. Please browse the sidebar, if you wish to access our active Prompts and Features and the ones that have been archived. We hope to...
6 years ago
How a Poem Happens

Lana K. W. Austin - Lana K. W. Austin’s poems, short stories, and reviews have recently been featured in *Mid-AmericanReview, Sou’wester, Columbia Journal, Zone 3, Appalachia...
7 years ago
Running from Camera

180. Monte Verità, Ascona - [image: running-from-camera-(2-seconds)]
8 years ago
Stress and Stars

I'm At Least 85% Sure I Didn't Buy Drugs This Time: Adventures in Being A Very Square Hippie - Here's the the thing about me — I'm a bizarre mix of absolute cynical skeptic and optimistic, enthusiastic hippie. I think amber teething necklaces are la...
8 years ago
Wanting The Moon On A Stick

The Problem With A Blogging Hiatus Is Figuring Out Where To Start From - I used to get frustrated with this journey of mine. Once I learned to let go, life drew me to great things I would never have experienced otherwise. I wan...
10 years ago
A Collection Of Poetry

hold me to this - becoming softer after every compromise brittled and self-destructive, we were charring into sharper malicious states of being compressing ourselves into mo...
11 years ago
Same Moonlight for Our Dreams

Life happens... - My baby boy is 12... My baby girl almost 1... Life happened so i did not post anything in forever. Well Same moonlight for our Dreams is coming back. ...
11 years ago
D.C.GIRL@THEMOVIES

THE JEM MOVIE'S SHANA AND COLORISM - from a decidedly brown-skinned black girl with a big bouncy purple fro to a beige biracial "safely black" girl with straight hair This strikes close to hom...
12 years ago
The 18YearOld Naive.

- Hey there, fighter it will get brighter. Take a breath, a little deeper and bring your faith a little higher. Remember, you are a leader not a follower.. ...
13 years ago
Afternoon Tea.

- Inhale the yawning frost let it gather and collect beside your sleepy heart drowsy from neglect. Rest your ghostly frame, hush her muddled drawl. You say ...
14 years ago
Not Your Grandfather's Beauty Pageant

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Dirty Pretty Thangs

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At Art Words

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A Familiar Stranger

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