by McKenzie | Jul 18, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
not an elegy for Mike Brown I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary, black dead thing. bring him & we will mourn until we forget what we are mourning & isn’t that what being black is about? not...
by McKenzie | Jul 15, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
—in the wake of another tragedy: praying for France THOUGHTS OF A SOLITARY FARMHOUSE And not to feel bad about dying. Not to take it so...
by McKenzie | Jul 14, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
PURSUIT —for Arctic Explorer Donald B. MacMillan...
by McKenzie | Feb 19, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
THE WOVEN MESSAGE come hide near me I’ll count however long I need to count the insects in the web— I like the still living ones—that beat of wing I hear or the still turned-on ignition of the firefly—I see one’s underbelly blink on and...
by McKenzie | Feb 12, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
/ You are in the dark, in the car, watching the black-tarred street being swallowed by speed; he tells you his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there. You think maybe this is an experiment and you are being...
