• A Nation Of Immigrants
    By Melani Segovia These are different published pieces interwoven together to form a spoken word piece. I made this piece because it talks about immigration …
  • My Childhood Poem
    Bless me for holding on to my dreams and never letting them goBless me for remembering singing through the whole house and getting lost in …
  • 10 Things To Have Hope In
    My fear of mirrors, ever since I was a kid, I believed that my body was more monotone than orchestra. For 16 years it’s reeked …
  • A Series Of Harrowing Phenomenons
    A butterfly flaps its wings,and you happen Mild breeze in California into whirling winds at sea Now there’s a tornado in Maine and it’s your …
  • Two Balloons Stuck In A Tree
    Nothing but nylon and string wrapped again and again around the twisted bough and waving in the breeze.There’s no escape.Here they will be kept until …
  • Politics As Told… By Teens
    “The mention of politics is a surefire way to get teenagers to fall asleep.” -Leila D’Angelo in The GuardianHello. I am a teenager. I am …
  • (Untittled) By Marquise Mashburn.
    My soul predates the Egyptianssmoking on this weed no prescriptiontrying to elevate better pay attention I’m resonating at the frequency of the sunhorus telling me …
  • My Experience In Lanzate 2016 With Mi Jente
    Name of Conference: LANZATE 2016The organizers of “Mi Jente” sent me an email about their gathering with different organizations in Puerto Rico, and they asked …
  • Anxiety
    All in my headAnxiety is the worst thing someone canever have.I worry, and fear, and thinkSo much soThat the migraines kick in and that600mg pill …
  • Abuse is not love
    Many people think domestic violence can’t and will never happen to them until it has escalated to where it is too late to receive help. …
  • Windows
    In September we took off our socksstretched them out to dry in thelingering summerwith bare feet I learned that body is akind of currency how …
  • Recurring Storms
    Dana’s feet drag on the groundHer worn sneakers take steps without herHer confidence in fistsShe walks up the stairsTo the dreary houseThe white picket fenceHe …
  • Becoming We
    What does it take to become we?To become we is to be united with one another, you have to forget hate, you have to understand …
  • Meeting Ronald K. Brown: Dancer, Choreographer, Storyteller
    By Melani Segovia, Jeanette Quitizaca, Dylan Spencer Evidence a Dance Company was founded by dancer Ronald K. Brown in 1985, and based in Brooklyn, New …
  • Marc Bamuthi Joseph: Poet and Dancer
    By Serenity Lewis, Donovan Spencer, Melani SegoviaLast summer, we got to interview an American Performer, Marc Bamuthi Joseph. He started his arts career at the …
  • Where I’m From A Community Poem
    By Cierra, Sharissa, Niobe, Samiya, Kaliyah, Sade, SerenityWhere i’m from… the smell of my grandmother’s fried chicken fills the air .Where I’m from…I see the …
  • Dear World: A Letter
    By Kaliyah and Amyah Dear World, We are writing this letter about how deportation impacted us and how we feel about this happening to others. …
  • Violence
    By Niobe WrightViolence is pain,Violence is not a game,People who use violence should be very ashamed.Violence can be used in many ways.People all around the …
  • Love
    By Awesome CCThey say love comes from the heartbut what they fail to see is that lovealso causes you pain but in so many waysit …
  • Who Am I?
    By: Melani Segovia I don’t know who I really am right now. I don’t know where I belong. My name is Melani, but I go …
  • Silence
    By: Kaliyah I feel silenced when I’m the only black person in a classbecause I feel out of place so it makes me hesitate toraise …
  • Mountain Xpress Article About Squad Room.
    Mountain Xpress is an Asheville-based independent weekly newspaper. This article about the new Squad Room was published in a recent issue. Click here to read …
  • Green and Red
    By Awesome CC Green Green is my mother cause shekeeps me alive day in and day outbut that’s all about to change cause I’ve stripped …
  • Unified Voices Poem.
    For the Southside Stories performance at Alternate ROOTS Week, Squad members Ilah and Khavah combined a line from each of the word on the street …
  • Human
    By Nevel Swain Hair, legs, feet,feeling , we havethem right? But yet I gettreated like the mud underneathyour shoe. Nothing. Made fun of ‘cause of …
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