My Hummingbirds
by Kevin Chopson
I will write one thousand poems about hummingbirds.
I will take them to Japan and study origami.
Each poem will become a cut and folded replica
of a childhood memory.
POETRY
Poetry | “Summer Thirst”
by Gayle Hutchinson
Several times
I’ve gone to God
About our love
And what to make of it.
The response is always the same . . . let him love you!
Seems irreverently invalid,
Poetry | “Lyric” by Gina Raye Felts
Gina Raye Felts is a fourth-generation native Nashvillian and a 2009 graduate of Nashville State Community College with an Associate of Arts in Art. She works in various media including textiles, watercolor and, most recently, verse. She is a…
Poetry | Dark Star
by Sebastian Jones
As I look outside my window
Towards the ceiling of the universe,
Away from Bones and Satchel
Who drag their oversized trash bags around town
like their past,
I stare southward at the Northern Star.
Big
Poetry | I Had a Dream
I Had a Dream
By Nevin Compton Trammell
I had a dream
that some force picked me up
and
put me down
in some new
and different town
that I had never seen before
with small shops
and church
Poetry | Warrior
By Mary Elizabeth Holden, Survivor
Now…You…Lose!
I won’t be silenced by your thoughts.
Nor by the words you say.
I won’t be buried in my hole.
Today is a brand new day.
Hope | In Memory of the St. Jude Children
Joy Ngoma is a student at TSU and majors in TV/Radio Broadcasting and Africana Studies. She has a great interest in documentary films and works with issues that address social injustice. She writes and produces for TV shows. The
A Garden’s Love
A Garden’s Love
by Tracy
In my life I had a friend so dear
To me, she was the garden in my heart.
She would feed me things I’ve never
Seen. So actually she taught me taste.
There was such
