Mississippi

This poem compares the martyrdom of Emmett Till to St. Moses the Ethiopian, the patron saint of Africa; both saints share the same feast day.

In this poem, Austin Alexis compares the recovery of a Haitian earthquake survivor to the beauty of a poem.

A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.