Tag: #Juneteenth

It’s June 19, 2021!

Welcome to the Writers Resist Juneteenth and Biden-Harris First 150 Days Issue

In this issue we celebrate, resist, and envision better things, along with pronouncing some serious condemnation when warranted.

But before you plunge into the issue, please consider these Juneteenth resources:

“What Is Juneteenth?” by Henry Louis Gates, The Root, 2013

“Making Juneteenth Great Again: The Caucasian’s Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth“ by Michael Harriott, The Root, 2021

and

“This Is Rich: Senate Passes Bill Making Juneteenth Federal Holiday While Republicans Are Working to Keep Slavery From Being Taught in Classrooms” by Stephen A. Crocket Jr., The Root, 2021.

Now, we hope you enjoy Writers Resist Issue 131,
The Editors

Writers Resist Call for Submissions

We’ll be publishing a special Writers Resist issue on 19 June 2021 to acknowledge Juneteenth and the first 150 days of the Biden-Harris administration—how’re we doing?

Send us your words, in poetry or prose, and your images, but read our submission guidelines first.

Submissions will be accepted through 15 May 2021.

Image is the Juneteenth flag.

Response/Ability

By Schyler Butler

 

Share the photo of Keisha with tire marks cascading her back.
Remember the protest last night, the hungry eyes.
Ask the masses where were you.
Ask them taste blood in exchange for God.
After the ashes settle on the campus rooftops
and the downtown glass is swept,
pay for Speedway Marlboro’s.
Listen to birds chirp and avoid the eyes
of every child still young enough to grow.

 

Schyler Butler received her BA in English from the University of North Texas. A recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for FY 2020 and a lead poetry editor for Human/Kind Journal, her work appears and is forthcoming in Duende, Superstition Review, Obsidian, Heavy Feather Review’s #NoMorePresidents, Kissing Dynamite, and elsewhere, sometimes under the pseudonym “Iyana Sky.” She lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash.