For Larry Kramer: Poetry by Hank Trout
For Larry Kramer
by Hank Trout
A plague!
It’s a plague!
Forty million infections is a fucking plague
Larry gripped the podium like a life raft
He leaned toward the...
Signs of Madness: Poetry by Tim Dlugos
Tim’s poems appeared in early issues of A&U. One of them, “Signs of Madness,” shows as much of Tim’s experience of AIDS, as it...
The Police Arrest Me Restocking ARVs: Poetry by Akpa Arinzechukwu
The Police Arrest Me Restocking ARVs
I will never let no man nor God weep for me
anymore.
Let the pity end where my saliva lands.
At night...
Reaching Past Silence: Poetry by Joe Babcock
Reaching Past Silence
It was the summer we had to be smaller
than towns where boys with pretty smiles
get their teeth knocked out.
To be blood brothers...
The Merchant of Grief: Poetry by Walter Holland
The Merchant of Grief
He does not do so willingly nor does he set the price,
His are meager things to collect,
things which others would neglect....
Plague Years: Poetry by Walter Holland
Plague Years
"As of 2018, about 700,000 people have died of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, and nearly 13,000...
It Seems: Poetry by Joy Gaines-Friedler
It Seems
only three years ago
we began our goodbyes.
Pray for me you asked, and I
had no idea how, or if I did pray
what it might...
Ghosts Ambling Along East 46th Street: Poetry by Raymond Luczak
Ghosts Ambling Along East 46th Street
Not ever expecting to see you again,
you appeared, walking ahead. I felt like a wren.
I stayed behind, not wanting...
“So there will be no distraction”: Poetry by Simon Perchik
Poetry
So there will be no distraction
you shower at night, your hands
kept cold as the same sound
snow breaks off bit by bit
whose only defense is...
Dan: Poetry by Larry Schulte
Dan
“when i want to kiss you, i kiss the ground.” Danez Smith
The language you spoke
from your hospital death bed
unintelligible to the rest of us.
Was...
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One Heartland Hosts Hybrid Holiday in the Heartland
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One Heartland, the Midwest organization serving children living with or impacted by HIV/AIDS, will hold a hybrid...
