For poet and essayist Franny Choi, the apocalypse has already come. Actually, it came many years ago for marginalized people, and it continues today. As their recent work suggests, though, this rather...

Within her first 10 minutes on stage, Khadijah Queen was engaging, mesmerizing and moving. Her first piece set the scene for a night of jaw-dropping, beautiful verse ahead and guided audiences to the...

The New Orleans Poetry Festival was created in 2016 by Megan Burns and Bill Lavender when they decided there were not enough literary events focused on poetry. The festival, which is by and for poets,...

There is a place where one must travel to find love. This is not a home. It is a secret garden: constructed by knobby hands, hidden from unknown antagonists. I’ve been gone for a year, returned,...

Margaux Armfield | Staff Artist I wish you felt how I felt. I first came to Tulane on an unofficial visit for football. I was excited about the new atmosphere in contrast to where I’m...

Brown Love | Canela López Our humanity is fleeting. Together, it builds, grows. Our ancestors chained, eradicated, exterminated. But we thrive. Humanity stripped, bodies attacked, existence devalued....

It's an autumn evening, early in the fall semester. The year is 2014. A young man naively climbs up onstage at a poetry slam in a last-ditch effort to impress the articulate, well-educated woman of his...

I do not understand. To be driven from your home. Stripped of your humanity. After all, "You knew better." To hate is to be taught to hate   "Knowing" weighs heavily. And heavier...

There's a lot of things that they didn't tell me. They didn't tell me that I'd be one of only a handful of students who look like me. They didn't tell me that student of color representation was...

I've never thought much about the color of my skin. See I've always been taught to only focus on what lies within.   The problem with the real world is, no one really listens. Different...