Bamboo Shoots Submission for 100Words
Bloody Easy
BR 100 word contest
How I became a writer.
Jean Toyama describes her take on the humanities and her effort to demystify poetry for young students so that they have the confidence to write some.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
Go Pick Um.
Bumbai Good ‘Nuf
You can tell a story in 100 words.
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General Poetry
Look Everywhere
How can
I say no poem today?
Renshi Submission
Just Enough Shave Ice
For make my lips red like strawberry For cool me off and calm be down afta all dis and all dat Just enough hope for me to think that yes…
Renshi Submission
The Fires
The flames have leapt from point to point unabated: first our eyes then our ears, into our hearts into our spleens, our insides scorched. We fight each other. Fear blinds…
Renshi Submission
Trying to Warn Me
They warned them about us, about me. We were one of them. Not to be trusted, they said. Don’t talk so loud, she said. Speak English, she said. So I…
Renshi Submission
Canvas
An old canvas bag tucked in between tattered boxes lying on the floor of the storage room crisscrossed by cobwebs: I’m selling the family house. The canvas is yellow, splotched…
Renshi Submission
All We Do Not Know
That remains a mystery to me: the nature of dark matter—MACHOs or Massive Compact Halo Objects, WIMPs orWeakly Interacting Massive Particles and neutrinos, those billion to one particles for every…