Bed Making After the ER: Poetry by Robert Carr
Bed Making After the ER
if I hold this threadbare sheet
just right
let hot breeze
blow through my open window
and become noon light
I can almost feel the...
Walking with Angels: Poetry by Emanuel Xavier
Editor's note: Originally featured in the June 2008 issue of A&U.
Walking with Angels
for Lindsay
AIDS
knows the condom wrapped penetration
of strangers and lovers, deep inside
only a...
Lines on my HIV Test: Poetry by Mike Zimmerman
Lines on my HIV Test
“Glory and light of poets! now may that zeal
and love’s apprenticeship that I poured out
on your heroic verses serve me...
Shades: Poetry by Jim Nawrocki
Originally featured in the January 2010 issue of A&U.
Shades
Inspired by the filming of Gus Van Sant’s film Milk,
in San Francisco’s Castro district, January, 2008
They...
Rafael Campo: Poet, Physician, Advocate
Then and Now
In a Collection of New & Selected Poetry, Physician Rafael Campo Explores HIV in a Medical Idiom
by Noah Stetzer
1994 is the year...
She Came Late to Writing: Poetry by Davi Walders
She Came Late to Writing
She came late, her wheelchair hooked
to a Critikon, her smile still slightly there,
a bright red bandana tight around her head.
She...
Ash: Poetry by Whitney Sweet
Ash
I was a kid and didn’t know you but went to your
funeral my cousin died of AIDS but didn’t know
what that meant just wore...
The Challenge of Adherence: Poetry by Noah Stetzer
Though it lacks the deliberateness of fire
setting the bridges or boats once one’s passed
into strange lands or foe’s territory—
dark Rubicon crossed over on horseback,
fighting...
Stephen Zerance: Writer & Advocate
Never Mind the Wasp
In a new collection of poetry, Stephen Zerance explores how we respond to danger, risk & fear
by Noah Stetzer
"I’m a danger...
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