Poems
Man or Beast? by Hezekiah Louie Zaraspe
Man or Beast examines the players of a political landscape, showing how they derive and manipulate power to keep it from slipping off of their hands.
September 9, 2020
Man or Beast examines the players of a political landscape, showing how they derive and manipulate power to keep it from slipping off of their hands.
The poem is an expression of anger towards someone with whom the poet fell in love with, but now, had fallen out of, depicting a relationship where the other person thought of him as nothing.
Dive by Katie Velez is a poem where she reflects on her own creative process and how her own experiences fuel her creativity.
Fairy Tale as Coping Mechanism explores the darker side of some of the poet’s favorite fairy tales and mishmashes them to conjure a narrative that may very well serve as a metaphor for the flawed, yet extraordinary times we live in.
Ode to the 80s Scrapbooks is a poem reflecting on growing up in Communist Romania.
It’s been months since I last saw you. If I knew that day would be the last time I saw you, I would have let that last touch linger a little longer.
Vera wants to earn extra income by selling recyclable materials to the local junk shop. However, witnessing an encounter among a garbage collector and two street children will change her perspective on helping others.
What really is pasalubong? Is it the goods the balikbayan boxes are packed with? Or is it the gift that your love ones have come home after a long time away?
One of the wonderful things about this quarantine is that it brought out compassion from people. We see ourselves in other living things more often than we used. We became more understanding and forgiving.