Angry Black Woman Fejiro Okifo __________ I’ve been called a lot of thingsangry is one of themloudbut you don’t really hear medo youwhy is it my laughtersteals your joymy tearsquench your thirstmy smilemakes you weakyou hate to seemy shoulders evenyou stamp me into the groundAnd Still I Risethat would make…
Read MoreGods Themselves Brittany Bostic __________ When did my body become something to fear? Was it when the melanocytes crackled alive and painted my skin Blackas fireworks Pollock night skies? Was it zygotic, this thing that built me fearsome? Chromosomal cataclysm, one X unto X in my cellslike cars ruptured into…
Read MoreJustice Effigy Deanna Be __________ Older statues of Lady Justice depict herwithout a blindfold. Originally,the blindfold was satire,portraying Justice blind to inequitiesbefore her. Her eyes were bound in irony.Alas sarcasm, so frequently a refuge,fails to hold its shape and changesat the whim of the beholder.Lady Justice with her eyes boundis…
Read MoreBlack History Month, Feb ’25 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Managing Editor: Karris Rae Associate Editor: Taryn White Assistant Editors: Robbie Hess, Leah Joseph, Jade Turner, Meilyn Woods Interns: Ta’Mya Davis, Elaine Schroeder Malina Catlett, “Untitled” Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from the Guest Editor by Meilyn…
Read MoreElaine Schroeder Elaine Schroeder is majoring in English at McNeese State University. She plans on getting an MFA and hopes to one day become a published author. She likes writing about the paranormal and fantastical. She also enjoys doing colorguard for The Pride of McNeese and plays flute on occasion.
Read MoreTa’Mya Davis Ta’Mya Davis is a senior at McNeese State University, set to graduate this semester. Passionate about missions, she has served in Mexico, Honduras, and Costa Rica where she got to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Currently, Ta’Mya is the Student Ministry Assistant at Trinity Baptist Church and…
Read MoreA Fenian Girl Mary Ann McGuigan __________ It sounds like she’s reciting the rosary, her way to get through this. It’s dark outside, way past our bedtime, and Mama is repeating names and dates once told to her, conjuring faces long gone. “We lived on MacDougal Street in the Village.…
Read MoreLeah Joseph Leah Joseph is an MFA/MA poetry candidate at McNeese State University and is an assistant editor for Boudin. She grew up in Ohio and earned her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. Her work has been featured in What You Need to Know About Me, an…
Read MoreRobbie Hess Robbie Hess is a southern poet from Birmingham, AL. He is pursuing his MA and MFA at McNeese State University. His poetry has appeared in The Bluebird Word and The New Croton Review. He is currently serving as the assistant poetry editor for the McNeese Review.
Read Moreyour blink-blink-blink Lindsey Warren __________ __________ Lindsey Warren is a Delaware native. She received her MFA from Cornell University, and her three collections (Unfinished Child, Archangel & the Overlooked, and Sentence, Forest) were published by Spuyten Duyvil. She has had several poem collages published in various journals, including Fugue, Miracle…
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