RM220

<p>Room 220 Literary Archive: includes essays, reviews, poetry and prose published by Antenna’s RM220 as well as literary events around town.</p>

Hanging Out Here: Editors’ Round-Up

Here are some of our favorite things on the internet and hard copy this week. Timely new stories, a dig through our archive, and some classics. Kristina Kay Robinson is… watching Criterion Channel lifts paywall on Black films “Titles streaming for free on Criterion Channel include Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust,” Maya Angelou’s “Down in the Hanging Out Here: Editors’ Round-Up

Obligation

The first time we fucked was at the back of the red barn on the Meyers’ property. His cock had a mean 30-degree angle and no amount of warming up could get a woman ready for such brutality against the splintery wall. When we finished, he kissed me tender, thinking the blood was from my Obligation

Police Blotter

Today is normal. I wake up to red badges of notification on a screen. Each morning, I allot the five minutes after my eyes open to scrolling them. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. WhatsApp. Slack. Gmail. Tumblr. I hate the sight of the numbers in the corner so I clear them as quickly as I can, leaving Police Blotter

Room 220 Syllabus: Supplemental Reading

1. Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition) MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT Foreword by Hazel V. Carby A modern classic about power and the making of history, with a new foreword by a prominent scholar “Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debates over the Alamo and Room 220 Syllabus: Supplemental Reading

Hanging Out Here: Editor’s Round-Up

Here are a few of my favorite things on the internet and hard copy this week. Timely new stories, a dig through our archive, and some classics. A Conversation with Jericho Brown by Skye Jackson from French Quarter Journal Fresh of his recent Pulitzer win for his third collection, The Tradition, Louisiana- born poet, Jericho Hanging Out Here: Editor’s Round-Up

The Art of Mecca Burke

Shine.Jake.Felix (Watercolor and ink on paper.) “These are three parts of an ongoing portrait series whose purpose is to celebrate the local LGBTQ community.” Must Be Jelly (Cuz Jam Don’t Shake Like that) (Watercolor and ink on paper) “Thighs are dope! There is movement, softness, and a jiggle and they should be celebrated.” hard body The Art of Mecca Burke

Umpteenth

Can I run If no one is chasing Me? Lighter than’ Air, will I glide Above cracked asphalt? The roar of an engine. Cracked air. Rifle Shot. Uglier than The 4th of July. The Period on life’s Sentence. Gun clubs And viral footage. Days in a winding chain The color of sunlight And then black. Umpteenth

Big Mama Yaga’s

Joke was, we relocated to Texas cause Katrina flooded us outta New Orleans. Then, of course, Harvey took possession over half the state, losin me my husband Vernon. One side of the Gulf to the opposite; I wonder why we thought movin would make a difference. I mean, Harvey was spozed to be a “500 Big Mama Yaga’s