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Whitney Houston VERSUZ Luther Vandross, August 32, 2020
"He had a lot of lady fans and he told me he just didn't want to upset the world" -- Patti Labelle
Poetry
NOVA CYPRESS BLACK
BEHIND THE TUMBLEWEAVE: A DOCU-SERIES
somewhere in North Philly there’s a Senegalese twist in a throuple with a cigarette butt & a leaf’s crunch.
Poetry
NOVA CYPRESS BLACK
Hold Your Applause
we don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no golf clap, pull up to da graduation twenty deep
Poetry
NOVA CYPRESS BLACK
Hattie Rothwell Watches Her Son on the Ranch
He drags, by tred-pale rope knotted around her belly, the heifer across the dirt.Â
Poetry
Sydney Mayes
Rothwell Ranch, 1912
mama used to say every time the weather was cool and cloudless
Poetry
Sydney Mayes
The Poet Visits the Dearfield Archives at the Denver Public Library
Summer has pulled, with its hands harsh as a playground bully, the silk from my press.
Poetry
Sydney Mayes
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