The Inside Inverse Blog

Tacos have always been my late-night craving. Coming out of a local brewery, I led my friend down for an eight-minute walk to the taco spot around the corner. As we walked, we passed by the Burger King where federal agents have been spotted frequently now. Memories mixed in with casual, 24/7 social media news. A thousand-yard stare. “You alright?” they ask cautiously. “Yeah,” I look at the empty parking lot as we stroll. I remember seeing a boy wail to see his mother taken aw

by Yon Yonni let the sand get everywhere only a towel under us stars shoot to remember another story of fertility gulls meander like...

by Yon Yonni Seen so many shades of the sun, yet still I sulk inside from time to time. Grief, a good friend of mine. Not because it's...

by Yon Yonni Mi madre said, “Ponte a rezar.” (Go pray) She’s taught me just about every prayer. She said, “Antes de que te vayas a...

By Yon Yonni head is heavy on her shoulders, thoughts, neurons stretched too long for anyone’s comfort reciting poetry into the fire foot...

All good books are bound... to what exactly? It is a certain privilege to walk into a room full of books. Some of those same books would...

Speak better. Speak no more. First Time Launching Poetry Online. 2019. About forty pounds of rolled sod weighed down my arms. Unloading a...

Penned in my dreams. Published on the blog What are tears? Shed skin? Shed sweat? Deferred love? DMT, the paint palate of my dream,...

Introduction to the Introspective Yankev Glatshteyn, born August 20, 1896 in Lublin, Poland. Early Life and Living Under Yankev was...

Before Harlem, Fenton: A Poet's Early Defiance A Portrait of Fenton Johnson from His Book, Visions of the Dusk , 1915. Before Langston...

A simple hello can and will ruin your day... if you let it Tell me if you've heard this, "In a synthetically taxing world, it’s easy to...

This space, the Inside Inverse Blog, is a culmination of occult authorship, burnt bridges, and receptive readers of over five years....

With context, his work carries life into new centuries. With the Compromise of 1877 and introduction of Jim Crow, "blacks in Illinois found themselves in circumstances only marginally better than those they had endured in the antebellum years".

A simple hello can and will hold an entire neighborhood together In a synthetically taxing world, it’s easy to overlook the power of...

Success is inherited, the cost is not This question lives in my head far ahead of my own time or supposed plan for life. 2017. The large,...