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EOAGH Pushcart Nominations 2017

EOAGH is pleased to announce the following nominees in poetry for the 2017 Pushcart Prize: “Right to Release” by Kay Ulanday Barrett “The Flag and the Shore” by Kerry Downey “This is Nothing Much to Hear” by Kenyatta JP Garcia “Attempting to Behead the Grounded” by Jimena Lucero “The Other” by Pazia Miller “500 Dead Crows” by Isabelle Shallcross Congratulations and best of luck to … Continue reading EOAGH Pushcart Nominations 2017

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Poetry

Kay Ulanday Barrett

  Right to release   For the longest time, I dreaded bathrooms, the bleach singing nostrils, I pictured my brown mama in every white person’s house, scrubbing tile making what other people took for granted, shine.   In airports, I clench my bladder. in public anywhere, I hold it until a 3rd floor walk up can turn bloody.   There’s a story every trans person … Continue reading Kay Ulanday Barrett

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