Poetry Archives – Scalawag

Astrodome Feb 23, 2001

by Randall J. Tyrone June 3, 2026June 3, 2026

Even when the song competes
my cotton candy pink regale keeps up
the sugar stays
The airs gone on the latest train to Georgia.

hurricane season

Hurricane Season

by Maha Abdelwahab May 21, 2026May 21, 2026

An Eye Whose Fleet Sings

by Isra Hassan May 19, 2026May 19, 2026

Commentaries on Protection and Safeness

by Donnie Moreland April 30, 2026April 30, 2026

Perfect

by Joshua Burton April 29, 2026April 29, 2026

Rules on pronouns

by Jireh Deng April 29, 2026April 29, 2026

soup

Soup

by Chankrisna Tea April 29, 2026April 29, 2026

We Sinners, Born Again in the Breaking

by Etienne C. Toussaint April 16, 2026April 16, 2026

To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life

by Da'Shaun L. Harrison February 19, 2026February 19, 2026

Behind the Plants: Living in the Shadow of Industry on Cancer Alley

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Climate Resilience: A 2025 Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 31, 2025March 19, 2026

The Louisville Art Workshop

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Southern Cultures: A Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 30, 2025December 29, 2025

D'Angelo

A New Theory of Nowhere: Remembering D'Angelo

by Justin A. Davis October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

Palestinian Political Prisoner Shukri Abu Baker’s Poetry Book Debuts in Houston

Palestinian Political Prisoner Shukri Abu Baker's Poetry Book Debuts in Houston

by Aarohi Sheth August 29, 2025September 1, 2025

Ain't Sh*t Changed

Ain't Sh*t Changed

by E. Paris Whitfield August 25, 2025August 27, 2025

patience-in-the-bramble-illustration

PATIENCE IN THE BRAMBLE

by I.S. Jones April 28, 2025May 1, 2025

burial-clothes

Burial Clothes

by Brittany Rogers April 28, 2025April 28, 2025

all-the-ghosts-got-loose-again

All the ghosts got loose again

by Kendra Allen April 28, 2025April 28, 2025

UPON LEARNING THAT PAPI JUICE JOINED THE PALESTINE ACADEMIC & CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL

by Sa Whitley April 28, 2025April 28, 2025

Until Today

by Jada Renée Allen April 28, 2025April 28, 2025

A Black, masculine figure sits atop a red classic car in the foreground, surrounded by a floral background. For Trans American Sonnet #9. Cumulative Realities.

Trans American Sonnet #9

by MARS. April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

A surreal sunset scene on a city sidewalk. A figure in the foreground followed by another behind. Poem About Policing for Cumulative Realities.

poem about policing

by b ferguson April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

Resembling Alice in Wonderland, a Black girl tumbles in a floral vortex surrounded by domestic items and playing cards.

Initiation and Time of Arrival

by Yena Sharma Purmasir April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

Green crystals emerge from a floral bed in a cosmic landscape from green crystal skulls undearneath. Etymology of flight, for Cumulative Realities.

etymology of flight – a venn diagram

by dezireé a. brown April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

Illustration of two Black women touching foreheads on a subway, in blue light. The Mayflies Are Like Stars for Cumulative Realities.

The Mayflies Are Like Stars

by Golden. April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

A powerful Black woman seated in a chair in a forest holding a hunting rifle

Cumulative Realities: Queer Poems for the Liberated Future

by Aurielle Marie April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too

some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too

by Donnie Moreland March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

A Decade of Scalawag: Top Stories Each Year

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A Decade of Scalawag: Top Stories Each Year

by Scalawag Editors December 30, 2024December 13, 2024

vanguard poems

The Vanguard Poems I & II

by Donnie Moreland December 23, 2024December 23, 2024

Climate Resilience

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Climate Resilience: A 2024 Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 23, 2024March 19, 2026

solitary confinement dragon

Solitary Confinement (dragon scales don't bury like gold)

by Donnie Moreland December 20, 2024December 12, 2024