All posts tagged "women"
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Two Poems by Maya Pindyck
By Maya Pindyck The Count His command: Hold out your hand. Grabs her palm, the shade of white asparagus. Shoves in it a...
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Two Poems by Erin Parks
By Erin Parks 3 Queens Haiku Strange and strong Women Transcending normal life things Freedom in a word ...
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Three Poems by Aya de Leon
By Aya de Leon eulogy for my ass friends loved ones we are gathered today to pay our respects to bid farewell...
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Two Pieces by Karin Cotterman
By Karin Cotterman Radiation/Journey to basement and waiting room I enter the sliding glass door of the building as if I am...
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Poem Suite: Retold
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, three poets consider...
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Four Poems by Cindy Lynn Brown
By Cindy Lynn Brown Harmless Just a remark casually through the room under neon lights nothing to hang on to for several minutes...
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Two Poems by Gala Mukomolova
By Gala Mukmolova Girl-talk * I’ve really been working on my orgasmic meditation, my ex tells me. If the instructor touches my clit in...
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UPDATE: NOW’s Love Your Body Day (Video)
TFW Collective members Tamura A. Lomax and Heidi R. Lewis participated in the first ever Love Your Body Day Google Hangout hosted by the National...
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Three Poems by Meredith Trede
By Meredith Trede Surviving Birds As you pack, you tell me the swans attacked during your dawn river swim. Their fierce wings...
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Race and Community Accountability
By Qui Dorian Alexander I came into feminism as a butch Latina lesbian at a women’s college. Today I stand as a brown queer trans...
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Visual Art: "brown sugar" by Theresa Anderson
By Theresa Anderson Theresa Anderson is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist and a writer whose art blog was selected as a top five finalist by the...
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Poetry Spotlight: Tiphanie Yanique
Anniversary I am knotted at the house screaming. The moving church careening away with my husband. Christ, they’ve committed him. But the witnesses...
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Two Poems
By Saumya Dave Daughter Dreams Before arid fate grips these ankles and loneliness seduces my lungs I’ll offer who I never was ...
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Should-ing All Over Ourselves
By Koritha Mitchell In November 2001, right before I began writing my dissertation, I experienced one of the defining moments of my life. I had...
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It's Not The Load That Breaks You Down; It's The Way You Carry It
By Kamilah Aisha Moon Five strong, consistent years as an adjunct professor. So what? So what you spend extra, unpaid hours assisting students who arrive needing...
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My First Vote
It’s a strange time to be a young woman in America and to be facing voting for the very first time. When women are still...
