THE ARTS

POETRY & PROSE

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POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
the victims will not be there to judge
they won’t judge the lives we’ll lead/ not the memorials/ not the protests/ they won’t judge the history told in their honor/…
CHRISTOPHER SORIANO
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Restore Songs of Palestine
losing someone you know losing family members you wanted to know but never had a chance to What life wisdom would you have…
AHMAD GHANIM
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Unsent Love Letters
  This morning, I wrote you another letter. (All the things that should’ve been said) Though I told myself I wouldn’t, racing…
LYNN ROBCHINSKY
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
A Lost Button
Off a cotton shirt,  the shiny, lone button  popped, stray threads  frayed in place, reaching  around the vacant space with wispy arms…
M.A. RIAZ
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
To Fill a Paper
My teenage years often feel some sort of sick competition, as I watch college applications and academic success swallow so many students…
ARIANA BHARGAVA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Night of Power
“The Night of Glory is better than a thousand months…it is peace until the break of dawn.” —The Holy Quran, 97:3-5 .…
M.A. RIAZ
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
The Partition
The Partition is known to be the world’s largest mass migration, displacing 14 million people and killing another million. Following the British…
MALIYA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Grief in August
And so I write to my Rabb this time… Whenever August rolls around I become numb.  From the Partition to Article 370,…
MALIYA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
November Melodies
Oh you chipped, red-rusted leaves, swinging to and fro’,  beneath the yel-low— scattered, blanched, frayed   You stayed a little longer this…
DOWSA_XO
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Trip
Off to Washington D.C. I go— Because I need to know about Roe. And what is it about Roe you ask?  …
RA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Zero
Zero   I now take a bow I give what was never given And have much more   The energy never dies…
SANJANA KARTHIK
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
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I would love to just tell you a story of liberty But that would be unjust for my people And not very…
JUDE ELRAYES

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