Poetry Archives – Scalawag

Scalawag Updates

Scalawag's 2021 Jubilee: A southern ass evening of liberatory lit 🎉

by Scalawag Team November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

Part book club, part kiki and allllll Southern, we're putting on a party to celebrate some of the year's best reads.

Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021December 1, 2021

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021October 6, 2021

Let Black Art Tell It

by Alysia Nicole Harris February 15, 2021February 15, 2021

Poetry from Jericho Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & Taylor Johnson

by Alysia Nicole Harris December 1, 2020December 3, 2020

Exits from solitude—Poems we need right now

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 27, 2020December 3, 2020

Sasha Rewrites Uhmareka

by Jamara Wakefield September 22, 2020December 3, 2020

Letter from a New Normal: Finding hope in purgatory

by DANTE August 20, 2020December 3, 2020

If your name ever falls on a prison roster: What I know now.

by EDUARDO MARTINEZ August 19, 2020December 3, 2020

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 12, 2020December 3, 2020

Postcolonial Love Poem: 'How do you maintain your tenderness?'

by mónica teresa ortiz June 24, 2020December 3, 2020

Modern abolition and the lasting truth of change

by Scalawag Editors June 18, 2020April 16, 2021

Southern Politics

Memorial Day and weaponizing the American flag

by Jedediah Purdy May 25, 2020December 3, 2020

Scalawag Updates

(Past) Scalawag Virtual Jubilee—Thursday 4/16

by Scalawag Team April 13, 2020December 3, 2020

Healing in the wake of environmental trauma: Two poems for National Poetry Month.

by Che Justus & Alina Stefanescu April 1, 2020December 3, 2020

"No Place Like Home" Notes from opening night at The Miami Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival

by Zaina Alsous February 26, 2020December 3, 2020

Curated Tolerance: the aesthetics of gentrification

by Amber Delgado February 21, 2020December 3, 2020

12 Haikus on gentrification: Bull City edition

by Alysia Nicole Harris February 19, 2020October 1, 2020

'The teacher calls us wet, dark names': two poems by Christopher Martinez

by Christopher Martinez February 3, 2020December 3, 2020

The Queer South: Where the past is not past, and the future is now

by Minnie Bruce Pratt January 27, 2020December 3, 2020

Food, power, and place in Northwest Arkansas

by Olivia Paschal January 6, 2020December 3, 2020

Scalawag Updates

Y'all's top Scalawag picks of 2019

by Scalawag Team December 30, 2019December 3, 2020

South of Rider-Waite: Four Southern Tarot Decks that Tackle Representation in Imagery, Theme, and Language

by Christie Matherne December 23, 2019December 3, 2020

'No Such Thing As a Still Life'—Ekphrastic poetry by Nina Oteria

by Nina Oteria December 16, 2019December 3, 2020

'No Such Thing As a Still Life'—Ekphrastic poetry by Joy Priest

by Joy Priest December 9, 2019December 3, 2020

'No Such Thing As a Still Life'—Ekphrastic poetry by Denise Alden

by Denise Alden December 2, 2019December 3, 2020

'No Such Thing As a Still Life'—Ekphrastic poetry by Keesean Moore

by Keesean Moore November 25, 2019December 3, 2020

'No Such Thing As a Still Life'—Ekphrastic poetry by Nordette Adams

by Nordette Adams November 18, 2019December 3, 2020

'No Such Thing As a Still Life': Ekphrastic poetry by Taylor Johnson

by Taylor Johnson November 11, 2019December 3, 2020

"I listen for the night:" Two Poems by Destiny Hemphill

by Destiny Hemphill September 16, 2019December 3, 2020