Tonsillitis
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/AngTonsillitis.mp3″] Like a man’s remains in the belly of a whale, the throat cultures its own pain. A cruelty—a […]
Audio, Poems
Audio
African American Poets, Audio, Poems, Tributes
Why Do They Call Bill Clinton the First Black President?
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/GoodwinBill.mp3″] Idris Goodwin WHY DO THEY CALL BILL CLINTON THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT? Perhaps its Baptist Donkey rides Mom
Audio, Poems
To the Former Self in Art Class
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/NotessClass.mp3″] You didn’t know the boy sitting next to you in Watercolor 101 was going to shutter himself in
Audio, Poems
Home Visit: Danny
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/PerrineDanny.mp3″] Now, I remember nothing of Danny but the smudge of freckles that hovered above his upper lip, that
Audio, Poems
Bottomlands Widow
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/RamspeckWidow.mp3″] Fire blight has infected her apple trees again. The milky ooze drips as stigmata from the infected blossoms.
Audio, Awards, Poems, Poetry Prize
Dream/Time
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/TobolaDreamTime.mp3″] In the dream, I’m showing someone the grave where my father is buried. There, under the willow tree.