A POC Magazine
Alex – the Wonder/Gem of Ghana’s Art Scene It’s too easy. Watch how Alex Wondergem lives up to his name by producing short films and music (below) that takes the veil off of Ghana’s rich culture and allows the rest of us to witness the beauty, grit, and promise that lives within the country. …
In A Rare Moment of Nostalgia My Father Reflects on Obama’s Inauguration I don’t want to start with the bullet or how you wanted to be president because he was or how in my dreams I can watch the wind surge clean from one side of your skull to the other or how I never …
The Hotep Vs Zora’s Ghost He said – Jesus was black. – I said – Jesus was not black but what? He held his enormous brown dick & said my parents are white. says that – I worship the sun & the alabaster slut of Babylon. He says that – I sleep on the …
5 Micropoems From & To America Moratorium Grievances are to be, mass-produced, shelved. Later triggered & detonated. Hypothermia Out here, the blood clots canon only, decree amputees illegal. Trunchbull Fatten with decadence until plate chips bottom-feeders’ calloused hands. Upheaval Grassroots, the earth creaks at foundation when the Temple quakes. Rebuttal Christ conscious, awoke tendons threatened …
Natural Remedies He told me “I’ll stop if it don’t feel good” & I laid there Accepting my defeat & later practiced Cutting myself open Without making me bleed. My name is LaToya Favor & I am just getting started. I’ve held a love for poetry & writing for as long as I can …
(or how lies become true)
You tell me
keep singing the blues
You tell me
what notes to use
You say
no one sings it like me
Then you say
I’m singing off key
Candace Habte is a most-of-the-time-writer and sometimes-artist from Maryland. Her writing has been featured in The Liberator and Blackberry magazines. She is the editor of Theories of HER, an experimental anthology which features and celebrates women from all walks of life.
Friends Can Break Your Heart too – A dedication to those that forgot I loved them You mumbled in response… “what does strength have to do with kindness?” I would explain…. But it’s not a serious question… I think it’s an excuse… A attempt to force me to acquaint compliments of your reserve with the acceptance of …
In 2016 You give me 90s —-in 2016 :Long phone calls and pen pals—-Taxi cabs No Uber—— Face to face no— Facetime—Disposable cameras—less disposable People— No Snap—– Chat: Mahogany Little Blushes when I see your body. Long walks home brings me hearing that voice on the telephone makes me melt Mixing our Lauryn …
The Passengers Unwilling At a poetry festival the woman reads ten minutes of documentary poetry to an audience of writers. Or a bus, the 3am Greyhound from Detroit to Baltimore. Or a church in the middle of Valdosta where the fans in the pews come from the funeral home. But we aren’t. Neither bus schedule, …
Did It Hurt? Did it hurt to say I love you? And when our bodies pressed together Did you feel friction? Did I mistake your silence for comfort while your thoughts knotted themselves into a choker? Did you gag on your own truth? And did letting go bring you relief? Did it stop hurting? Were …