Gary Bowers is a Phoenix-based poet and portrait artist. His favorite style of poetry is acrostic, and he’s sketched as many locals as he has famous folks. When I decided to launch The Revolution (Relaunch) […]

Gary Bowers is a Phoenix-based poet and portrait artist. His favorite style of poetry is acrostic, and he’s sketched as many locals as he has famous folks. When I decided to launch The Revolution (Relaunch) […]
The Long Before #MeToo project grew out of a student query in one of Dr. Pamela Stewart’s Fall 2016 women’s history courses on the Downtown Phoenix campus of Arizona State University. After reading Harriet Jacobs’ […]
Uncle No one wants to go there. We have to tread light, write the perversion with metaphors, pen how flowers were crushed by boots. We have to whisper our travesties to therapists, guard the ears […]
I first met Paula Cullison at a rally to protest the abortion bans threatening to sweep the nation. I was part of a small group of women standing up against the pro-life protestors who were […]
an open letter to the white teacher who threw a Black boy out of her class for wearing too much lotion his skin was ashy. perhaps that’s a conceptyou’re unfamiliar with—like seasoned chickenand leaving vegetables […]
I would describe the bombers as “fraternity boys,” and I’m not saying this to perpetuate unsubstantiated stereotypes. I’ve been in higher education for just over 20 years, and I’ve seen some deplorable behaviors from fraternities […]
“AOC”, Acrylic on canvas, 60×48 inchesby Lucretia Torva This portrait of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is on display at the Herberger Theater Art Gallery in Phoenix, AZ as part of an exhibition titled “In Celebration of Women: […]
Josephina is born with the notched penny her mother swallowed as a childtucked in the folds of her chin. So beautiful, she charms the midwife and winksat her husband. Always the one to pick the […]
Amber McCrary is writing what she yearned for when she was young in the small town of Flagstaff, Arizona. “I always felt kind of like an outcast and a weirdo growing up. I never really […]
after Dr. Joshua Bennet’s interview with The Poetry God 1.A physics student told him that we are“too big to be considered by a wall”(as an explanation to why we aren’t ableto walk through them if […]