"I wanted to return to the archives."

Three poems from Cortney Lamar Charleston's new collection, "It's Important I Remember."

Meaning the Boricua, not the brutish brain that argued Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State; meaning the man of the island outside US borders but not outside U...

Join Haymarket poets Cortney Lamar Charleston, Golden, Maya Salameh, and Daniella Toosie-Watson for an AWP Offsite reading in collaboration with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

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An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America“History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.” In his sweeping third collecti...

that which is betwixt us of the lampooned lips and noses