Poem

A Request

Three poems by Christopher Kempf

Suite for Trayvon

(and for the ones we raise)

Two poems

Harambe for President (2016 Write-In Ballot)

Paradise Is Burning

Lost in the stillness of her stare, a dangerous watery horizon appears, and then she removes her mask.

Two poems by Precious Arinze

mountainsong

from ‘mass extinction’

Two poems

Children Versus Generals

Two poems

Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics

Two poems

Poem for the Guy Down the Street

Two poems

Public indecency or this is why I’m insecure

Whiteface

Memoriam

And Blue

Two poems

From “The Apparatus”

Four Poems

Two Poems

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