Journal of Writing & Democracy
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should we be more solicitous about the earth spinning too fast
or is this just another thursday?
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Two Poems by Naomi Riggs
i think / therefore I am / and I / am no child of yours
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In Passing
At thirty-three years old, with not even an ugly contender at her doorstep asking to marry her, Alima had gone to see the old clairvoyant.
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trees of my youth
what i’ve learned of love, i’ve learned it from trees.
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The Sweetest Sorrow
I always knew when you were close. Sometimes, I would smell you on my clothes, but only on the nights you got drunk enough to…
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Author Jason Reynolds never gets boring
For his 2024 novel Twenty-Four Seconds, Reynolds realized that there were not many books addressing “black boys’ tenderness.”