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2019 Winners

O’Hare

October 8, 2019/in Twitter Contest, Twitter Contest 2019 / Mackenzie Moore

It’s always the drive to the airport
when you look at me
merging concern from
the corner of your right eye
in my direction […]

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Styx

September 1, 2019/in Twitter Contest, Twitter Contest 2019 / Karthik Sethuraman

In this poem, I am an outlaw / though what do
I know about headstones or hemoglobin / my
father promised me that Morricone captured the
most important feature of existence / the whistle […]

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These Boots Are Made for Trauma

August 12, 2019/in Twitter Contest, Twitter Contest 2019 / Lannie Stabile

My feet
Are wearied and jaded
As a pair,
one incites the other […]

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transgender (adjective)

July 24, 2019/in Twitter Contest, Twitter Contest 2019 / Danielle Rose

trans·​gen·​der | \ tran(t)s-ˈjen-dər, tranz-\

Definition of transgender
1. a  : of, relating to, or being a person who is vulnerable : see OTHER

// like a fetus or an orioles’ egg it is fragile & frequently unborn […]

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Anthem

May 26, 2019/in Twitter Contest, Twitter Contest 2019 / Carla Schwartz

We, of the overbearing bosses,
the sovereign bosses
hovering over our desks,
we, just looking to advance our careers,
or seeking guidance, a leg up, […]

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A diaspora gives birth

April 19, 2019/in Twitter Contest, Twitter Contest 2019 / Alex Luceli Jiménez

Like a whisper caressing the back of our necks / kissing a line connecting sporadic wisps of hair / that’s how we feel it / a promise of a home we ever got to claim / made from bricks the color of earth / as deep and rich and brown as our skin […]

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