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Rachel Wiley

August 1, 2018

WusGood: “What’s your fav thing bout being Slytherin? Rachel: “My Slytherin Girl Gang” The Mother Riddle   Like finding a rogue shard from a long ago broken glass with the tender bottom of your foot you realize that you haven’t talked to your mother in what must be months now and you can only manage …

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Arla Shephard Bull

August 1, 2018

WusGood: “What’s your fav thing bout being Slytherin?” Arla: “(My) housemates’ and instructor’s IDGAF attitudes.”  Cousins:   scratchy field wielding wet heat — blank sky, brown faces snagged   near a thick gash in the dry Earth: a creek, syrup of chemical   stench. it’s December, but swamp sweat snakes, incremental, down walls   of …

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LaShawn Smith-Wright

August 1, 2018

WusGood: “What’s your fav thing bout being Slytherin? LaShawn: “Everyone expects bad from us so when we do something good it puts people on edge…makes them question their morals and prejudice. You can drive someone mad without doing anything wrong – make them more susceptible to manipulation” Janelle Monae Writes Shuri a Love Letter   …

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Joshua “Scribe” Watkis

August 1, 2018

WusGood: “What’s your fav thing ’bout being Slytherin? Scribe: “My favourite thing about being a Slytherin is that excellence is a standard held by your people. The same people you have to hold you down, make sure you’re elevating. It’s no trash standards accepted among Slytherins & I’m a sharper competitor because of it.” The …

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David Gaines

July 1, 2018

GENESIS in the beginning my first word was “hallelujah” which means church baby, tongue knows praise better than his mama’s name   then god said, let us make man in our image & i look just like my daddy, the handsome preacher whose lies became gospel   after my father loses the church my heart …

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Isaiah Moses

July 1, 2018

An Early Summer is a Troubled Thing That night the sky mourned with us. Rain poured, the city bathed in tears. I awoke to a revengeful sun Engulfing all of newark in heat Which reminded me adam did eat the apple And how death is man’s reparations to god. April was getting ready to say …

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Gabriel Green

July 1, 2018

Ode to the Dandelion And ain’t that like a rose?   Always getting what she wants. The uninvited belle of the ball, rearing her gorgeous head, all prickly, pretty, pitiful, painful, n’shit, to lay claim to every eye and heart.   And ain’t that like a rose?   Colonizer of urban soil, taking up space, …

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Amara Lawrence

July 4, 2018

Photo Credit @_0dysseus (Instagram) [Insert here Black Boys’ Name] Your Nan would’ve love to see you finally catch the spirit. Instead you caught the hand of the law. Fell in one messy swoop. Made the body giving itself to God look like poetry, or praise dance. Blood crowning you as if you were Christ himself, …

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River Mason

July 1, 2018

After Ferguson, After Pulse, After Gaza, After Texas, After Everywhere, After the Election & Before   I want people to love people the way dogs love people. Wholeheartedly. Without expectation. An intrinsic desire. You sit by me and I will sit by you. My mother owns four dogs. And I babysat them for a few …

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Darryl Terrell

July 1, 2018

“Retwist” it’s the raspy voice the way you smile when I walk in the door the                   “put your coat up, and meet me in the back” the black bowl the water lavender and mint scratching latch up under the water when wet I think I am a 3C but really i’m still 4C coil kink …

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