by Nadia Bourne The following is a poem for women on election day, inspired by a post by Shelby Knox. In her video she says, “Go vote. No excuses!…We are the young women’s revolution and we will not go back!” In this air, Nadia augments her own voice with feeling, entreating apathetic voters to vote in [...]

By Nadia Bourne an open Mind will break away from the Body when wounded unfastens easily once deception drives it mad like a transfigured Luna Moth rapped in silk, susceptible, it hardens with each blow until incorrigibly stiff, seemingly beyond repair it writhes in fetal position, contortions to retreat into a cocoon and develops a [...]

Nadia Bourne is a slam poet and activist currently studying at St. John’s University in New York. This particular poem focuses on Nadia’s goal for six months of abstinence. “I think that it is important, not only for girls to know the worth and the cost in giving yourself to another, but for men to [...]

Nadia Bourne is a slam poet and activist currently studying at St. John’s University in New York. Take Care is a poem Nadia Bourne wrote lamenting a break up with a woman she once dated. “Going into this relationship I knew that she had issues with the way she viewed herself and in past relationships. [...]

Nadia Bourne is a slam poet and activist currently studying at St. John’s University in New York. Catoptrophobia: Fear of Mirrors was written for her younger sister, Jasmin, a high school freshman. “She represents, for me, the very audience we are attempting to affect: the cost, the risk, the worth in this effort,” Bourne said. [...]

By Nadia Bourne Nadia Bourne is a junior majoring in English at St. John’s University, and, a native of East New York, Brooklyn, currently residing in Queens.   sex·y [sek-see] –adjective,[i]   While surfing the web I came across the Merriam-Webster dictionary and its two definitions for the word “sexy”. One of them addressed eroticism while [...]