Mary Bowman Arts in Activism Award Announced
honoring the poet, advocate, author, singer and young person living with AIDS Mary Bowman, the National AIDS Memorial and ViiV Healthcare have created the...
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...
Inoculations: Poetry by Raymond Luczak
Inoculations
in memory of Bruce Hlibok (1960-1995)
Funny how much New York’s changed
since you died. Rents have gone way, way up.
Brooklyn is shockingly hip...
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...
HIV in the Ghetto: Review
HIV in the Ghetto
An Analysis of the Lived Experiences of African-American Women With HIV in Chicago’s Inner City
by Dr. Kenneth M. Nole
CreateSpace
Reviewed by John...
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...
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...
Zack: Poetry by Jeni Booker Senter
Zack
“I am become Death. Shatterer of Worlds.”
——Bagavad-Ghita
I.
I envied his flaming pride and his carelessness.
I envied the way he openly painted his nails Glittery Gold
And...
Man Made Out of…: Poems by Nathaniel Rosenthalis
Man Made Out of Medical Institution
after Brendan Fernandes’ “In PrEP We Trust”
A blue field
I in a blue shirt
see
two other men
in different blue shirts
walk away
then...
In Which I hate My Bones: Poetry by Ajay Sawant
In Which I hate My Bones
Bones like sticks, calcite rolls, bones underneath
intolerant skin and loose muscles, bones
made of stones, like transparent lamenting
through years of...