Posts Tagged ‘DallasIsLit’
Dan Collins
Dan Collins is an artist and poet grateful for the creative community of Dallas, Texas where he also works in the printing industry. His poetry has been published in Blue…
Read MoreReverie Koniecki
Reverie Koniecki is an African American writer and educator living in Dallas, Texas. She is working towards her MFA in Poetry at New England College. Her poems and prose have…
Read MoreGayle Reaves-King
Gayle Reaves-King is a poet, editor, educator and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. A Texas native, she lives in Fort Worth. Her chapbook Spectral Analysis was published by the Dallas Poets Community. She was…
Read MoreKari Lynch, we used to sing, America.
i am watching a virus ascend on a country, live on television, like everything else “a one in three chance of catching it” the newscaster says, echoing the expert he…
Read MoreGayle Reaves-King, A Vocabulary For The New Age
Begin with A for agony. True, other ages have had their pains – torture, slavery, Holocaust, hunger, war, but this we feel deep in our pockets. Behest – that’s like…
Read MoreDan Collins, Disclosure (I remember fireflies fondly)
I feel like a tall shadow, a penumbra but my spirit totem is a firefly; a firefly timing a spackle of light, replacing in snatches …
Read MoreKristan Taylor, Tiny Goldmine
You scanned the area as if it were the first time you had plundered Your timing was crystalline: the last moments of light, the broken bulb on top of the…
Read MorePriscilla Rice, Loba (Self-Sacrifice, Self-Love)
It was the night my totem appeared in a dream A she-wolf, una loba, who stood outside the door I was inside with my ex, and I could hear the…
Read MoreKshounishBhadra-Bhaduri,
the agony of my clear, crystalline heart which i daub with the echoing tears of our release i stumbled away from our destiny the design of my soul plundered by…
Read MoreRylee Moore, A Disclosure On Life
Life is hard by design. Thrown together like a daub painting, life is short of grace. The innocent are plundered of all the means they had to reach their destiny.…
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