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Chantel Kelly
April 26, 2023

A Creased Page from a Plantation Ledger by Artress Bethany White

Chantel Kelly
April 26, 2023
A Creased Page from a Plantation Ledger by Artress Bethany White

When the prices lower / to $100 or so, I see old age. Pleasant $325 / is named like an epiphany. Citizen $600, / a bad joke or history’s irony. / Sam $650, Lizzy $600, and Aggy $650 / suddenly proclaim gender equity.

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Laura Pegram
February 7, 2023

Artwork: In Plain Sight by James Everett Stanley

Laura Pegram
February 7, 2023
Artwork: In Plain Sight by James Everett Stanley

James Everett Stanley (b. 1975, Waltham, MA) lives and works in Wellfleet, MA — he received a MFA from Columbia University and is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is an Assistant Professor of Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work is part of the permanent collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

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Chantel Kelly
February 7, 2023

Like Rifles for Deer by Rasha Abdulhadi

Chantel Kelly
February 7, 2023
Like Rifles for Deer by Rasha Abdulhadi

I grew up a hunter and served as an Army Ranger. / I grew up a hunter of brown bodies and served at the pleasure of empire's frontier.

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Chantel Kelly
February 7, 2023

Invocation at the Schomburg by Kassy Lee

Chantel Kelly
February 7, 2023
Invocation at the Schomburg by Kassy Lee

On the terrazzo floor, I cupid-shuffle with a friend / who, when I was young, fed me mooncakes / while I spent mid-autumn, in-patient psychiatry, / just down Amsterdam Avenue, from where, / now, on your ashes, Langston, we dance.

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