Three poems by Seattle-based poet Anastacia-Renee explore issues of the body, hunger, and writing as a single black mother. Featuring illustrations by Seattle artist Carol Rashawnna Williams.

Three poems by Seattle-based poet Anastacia-Renee explore issues of the body, hunger, and writing as a single black mother. Featuring illustrations by Seattle artist Carol Rashawnna Williams.
A new poem by Washington state poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna:
Imagine every spoken word/as part of a very large scaffold/that when we hear “hold” and “please”/steel decks, posts and leveling jacks/
shift this way and that