Whenever You Get Upset

Poetry & ProseChavisa WoodsMarch 21, 2019Steve Cannon, Poems, Poem, Whenever You Get Upset

Captive

Poetry & ProseLuci BerriosMarch 21, 2019Luciann Berrios, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Poetry and Prose

Now Available for Purchase: "Women of Eve's Garden: An Anthology"

COLLECTION OF POETRY FROM 10 FEMALE AND NON-BINARY AUTHORS, SELECT IMAGES FROM COLOMBIAN ARTIST

NewsLuci BerriosMay 11, 2018Luciann Berrios, Steve Cannon, a gathering of the tribes, Amazon, Women of Eve's Garden: An Anthology, New York Poets, Women Poets, Poets, Poems, New York Writers, New York Women Writers

Cathexis

I mourn for my mother, like Demeter
created seasons with grief
a daughter makes Hades fill the role
he will never be as gentle

Poetry & ProseGabriel DonMay 11, 2018Cathaxis, New York Poets, New York Poetrt, Poems, poetry, Gabriel Don

7 year bitch

Every where I go
Voila! There I am.

Making a mess.

Can't even give a compliment
Without pissing off
Some insecure housewife.

Poetry & ProseChavisa WoodsMay 10, 2018Amy Ouzoonian, Steve Cannon, A Gathering of the Tribes, 7 Year Bitch, Poems, Poetry, New York Poets, New York Poems

Three Poems

All About Being Rescued

As our minds travel in the same direction,
back to the same scene,
back to the moment of laughing out loud.
Traveling to the exact same place,
where we both knew just
what the other one meant.

Poetry & ProseMadlynn HaberMay 10, 2018Steve Cannon, a gathering of the tribes, Madlynn Haber, New York Poets, Poetry, Poems, All About Being Rescued, Distant and Estranged

A Review of Michael Simanga's "No One Can Be at Peace Unless They Have Freedom"

In the spirit of Marvin Gaye, one of several artists honored in No One Can Be at Peace Unless They Have Freedom, this volume is Michael Simanga’s What’s Going On book. It is an urgent and majestic mix of inner-city-blues-what’s-going-on-save-the-children--mercy-mercy-me-right-on-wholy-holy sensibilities remastered for our times.

Three Poems

Tasting of Hurricane

At sixteen, he hammers

black stones

to fit over breasts,

to bless the new wine

tasting of hurricane.

Poetry & ProseRobert HirschfieldApril 23, 2018Robert Hirschfield, Steve cannon, a gathering of the tribes, Poems, New York Poets, New York Poems, LGBTQ Writers, LGBTQ Poems, LGBTQ Poets, Tasting of Hurricane, Trans-Boy Rising, Trans Ghost

Where Language Moves Like Paint: The In-Betweens of Randee Silv’s Wordslabs

Randee Silv’s new chapbook, Farnessity (dancing girl press 2018) introduces us to a classification-eluding language event that she calls wordslabs. A first read-through can feel both seductive and disorienting. The content and rhythm of the first sentence or two might seem, often enough, to signal narrative, perhaps even fiction, but very soon afterwards, the threads start shifting so much that one has to wonder just what this writer’s up to.

"Word: An Anthology" now at the Smithsonian Libraries

We at A Gathering of the Tribes are happy to announce that our latest edition "Word: An Anthology" can now be found at the Smithsonian Libraries' National Museum of African American History and Culture Library.