Movable Type Issue No. 16: Monica Prince
Monica Prince Poems Insomnia, Love, and a Black Man From Roadmap: A Choreopoem RAVEN In the dark, my beloved sleeps easily. I can’t imagine how. Prone to tears in public and clutching him desperately, I lie awake, counting my heartbeats in time to his...
Movable Type Issue No. 16: Adrienne Christian
Adrienne Christian Poems Call Me Porky When I was a kid, they called me crybaby, because I cried when they called me Porky, because I cried when anybody got bullied, or any animal — the neighbors’ pink and gray Pitbull kept outside through...
Movable Type Issue No. 16: Zeina Azzam
Zeina Azzam Poems Jazz Singer For Lena In a tenebrous corner of the hushed cafe her face reflects light from muted candles flickering all around. The faint brassy gleam of the saxophone foreshadows a subdued melody that will pull her in, two voices improvising and...
Movable Type Issue No. 16: Sophia Zhang
Sophia Zhang Cocoon I want to be the deep purple sky of winter evenings, gray clouds covering everything. I want to be the bell-like blossoms of strawberry trees. I want to be soft rain. I want to be a recycled book—coffee-stained and creased. To be the garlic juice...
Movable Type Issue No. 16: Audrey Moyer
Audrey Moyer Family Trees out the windows with wooden framesthe trees standoffering cherriesafter carrying the snowit fits like a vase to a rosepolaroid of usyou’re wearing medium wash jeanspolaroid of usholding hands like a movie sceneas if yellow captions were at...
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