Silvia Bonilla is a New York-based poet and translator whose work has appeared in Rhino, Leveler Poetry and others.
Tag: poetry
“Some Days”—Poetry by Silvia Bonilla
Some Days- Poetry by Silvia Bonilla
How Black Poets Are Utilizing Their Platform During an Economic Crisis, a Pandemic, and Cultural Revolution
Poetry has always had the power to engage the oppressed. Right now, we are seeing poetry in its barest and rawest form.
Poetry: Occult Autumnal by Lisa Russ Spaar
Poetry by Lisa Russ Spaar and illustrations by Chika Osaka.
Art by Christina Quarles & Poetry by Christine Kitano
As a Queer, cisgender woman who is black but is often mistaken as white, artist Christina Quarles engages with the world from different positions.
Suzy Kellems Dominik Asserts the Role of the Woman Artist and Protagonist
One woman’s exploration of her calling as both woman and artist.
“Diving” by Gabeba Baderoon
Gabeba Baderoon is a South African poet living and working in Philadelphia. Photography by Genevieve Gaignard.
Anna Akhmatova: Remembering Stalin’s Sins
Anna Akhmatova is one of Russia’s most revered poets. Her work often criticized Stalin’s Russia by lending a voice to victims of the regime.
Poetry—Congo: A Burial Hymn by Sarah Lubala
Exile is the brother of death. —Berber Proverb
To the Woman on the Bus
by Jumoke Verissimo
Poems of Desire, Poems of Self: Lisa Russ Spaar’s “Orexia”
A review of Lisa Russ Spaar’s fifth poetry collection, Orexia: “love has stories not mine to know/ or ever tell.”
Poetry: The Money Tree by Elizabeth Karp-Evans
Elizabeth Karp-Evans is a writer and editor living in New York. Her latest endeavor is Pacific, a design and publishing studio founded with Adam Turnbull.
Poetry: Regimen by Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson
Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson is an Irish-American poet and photographer leading the Chicago Publishers Resource Center’s Wasted Pages Writers’ Workshop Series.
Poetry: For My Mother by Erin Mansur-Smith
Erin Mansur-Smith received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from Ohio University after working for the National Domestic Violence hotline and a literacy program with AmeriCorps. She started losing her hearing as a child and is now profoundly, and proudly, deaf.