AudioPoetry

Subterfuge

By Mai Der Vang May 22, 2017

Maybe you spiked the dirt / With your snare of shivers.

Conflict

AudioPoetry

The Song of Empty Rooms

By Wale Owoade March 27, 2017

Your voice is my favorite album, / you left but your bones are still here.

Family & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Oasis

By Beth Bachmann March 13, 2017

We want what God wants: to be pure.

Bodies & NatureClimate & EnvironmentReligion

AudioPoetry

Number Love, My Taxes

By Alicia Mountain January 23, 2017

how we are so many dependents, / how one headlight will do for now

Bodies & NatureFamily & RelationshipsWork & Money

AudioPoetry

Hive

By M'Bilia Meekers January 9, 2017

My name // came reeling towards me from a net / of insects that said it was your mouth.

AfricaConflictFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Neck of the Woods

By Amy Woolard December 26, 2016

One girl might leave a trail of crumbs / Behind her. One might leave a line of poured-out gasoline.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Fourth Algorithm

By Terrell Jamal Terry November 7, 2016

I have trouble naming myself / In a language I can find.

Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Labor Day

By sam sax June 15, 2016

any word traced to its origin is a small boy begging for water

The Future of Cities Bodies & NatureConflict

AudioPoetry

Migrant Is Not a Metaphor

By Cynthia Dewi Oka June 15, 2016

A migrant learns to love as mothers do, by trying and trying again.

The Future of Cities ConflictPolitics

AudioReport

Brooklyn Bound

By Dwyer Murphy June 1, 2016

The fight to extradite El Chapo.

AmericasConflictGovernmentPolitics

AudioPoetry

Tenebrae

By R. A. Villanueva June 1, 2016

Praise instead the night, its starless, basilica void.

Bodies & Nature