“We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.”
Poetry House is a celebration of the collective Black & Brown & Queer bodies that confetti over the Bronx landscape. We are the ungentrified storytellers still beating on the uptown trains. The poets whose backdrop is hip-hop. The artists whose studios are made of brick and concrete. We seek pieces that turn bullets into seeds; the ones that eulogize the intersection of personal identities & what it means to exist in a place the city won't water. Give us the pieces that have terrified and healed you. Give us the ones that are your most honest, angry, and true. Give us lore.
Give us something that'll make us say, "Damn."
We reject the clout-seekers and attention-mongers.
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The Home Issue
“If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my memory, but out there, in the world.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
Featuring 10 Poets, including:
Kay Bell, Bronx Poet Laureate
Alexis Garcia, Author of Ask Me Again in Six Months
Danté Péläyō
and more!
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If Bronx Streets Could Talk
Poetry House, OneLoveOneMic, and Felicia Cade teamed up to create “If Bronx Streets Could Talk”--a collaborative zine featuring the works of poets and community members who joined in a generative writing workshop based on Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” This intimate work is a lesson in fostering empathy, capturing the moment of connection between strangers.