The Autumn 2025 “Burn It Down” issue of TrashLight has hit the streets. My poem, “Rewind,” appears along with many other voices in its eighty-plus pages of art, fiction, and poetry. All of this creativity is a call to action, to rise up and rage against the would-be fascist machine that threatens our country 24/7 these days. TrashLight Editor-in-Chief Jill Spinelli has these words to add to the conversation: “This issue is built from the broken screams for justice, the need to be seen, and the feral desire to fight back…
Acceptance News: The “Burn It Down” Issue of TrashLight Press
My poem, “Rewind, or One More Reminder of Our Long and Ongoing History of Ochlocracy”, has been accepted for publication in the Fall 2025 “Burn It Down” Issue of TrashLight Press. This poem is included in my yet-unpublished chapbook, Postcards of the Hanging. Many of the poems in this manuscript—including this one—were informed by the newspaper articles and editorials collected in 100 Years of Lynching by Ralph Ginzburg, first published in 1962 and re-released by the Black Classic Press in 1988
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