Witness Magazine

Martha Collins

Martha Collins is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front, which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award, as well as four earlier collections of poems and two co-translated volumes of Vietnamese poetry. She is currently editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and one of the editors of the Oberlin College Press. Two new collections are forthcoming: White Papers from Pittsburgh (2012) and Day Unto Day from Milkweed (2014).

[white paper #38]

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Poetry•Vol. XXIV No. 2 (Summer 2011)

The White Tree was green, shady oak in the schoolyard for whites only, until a black student sat there and three nooses were hung from its branches the next day three nooses      white tree Three white students were caught and suspended for three days, black students sat by the tree to protest, one black was beaten… [Read More]