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Freedom, Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Freedom, Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award
This poem explores the darker side of Facebook's role in sparking online activism and social movements.
Saying The Words, Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Saying The Words, Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award
This poem takes a viscerally personal approach to the "Time's Up" movement's philosophy of making revelations and facing difficult realities.
North Atlantic Black, Chazz R. Chitwood
North Atlantic Black, Chazz R. Chitwood
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
North Atlantic Black is a collection of contemplative, lyrical poems that explore issues of coming out, suicide, yearning, and male relationships.
Woven together, North Atlantic Black moves through different questions of masculinity encountered by the poet through the process of coming out. Early poems explore themes of masks, of theater, and of dressing and costume as means of escaping the traditional bounds of masculinity
North Atlantic Black further braids in concepts of home, how they relate to identity through heritage and expectation, and how they inform the poet’s thoughts on what it means for men to have relationships—how ideas of …