MEH
Matthew E. Henry(MEH) is the author of the Colored page (Sundress Publications, 2022), Teaching While Black (Main Street Rag, 2020) and Dust & Ashes (Californios Press, 2020). The editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal, MEH’s poetry and prose appear or are forthcoming in Barren Magazine, Fahmidan Journal, The Florida Review, Massachusetts Review, New York Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, Poetry East, Shenandoah, Solstice, and Zone 3. MEH’s an educator who received his MFA yet continued to spend money he didn’t have completing an MA in theology and a PhD in education. You can find him @MEHPoeting, writing and tweeting about education, race, religion, and burning oppressive systems to the ground.
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an open letter from the boy i was to the Man you have become
i don’t remember what we even said. something about your lack of femininity. tomboy at best. lesbian at worst for a sixth-grade lunchroom. you weren’t a threat to me. had never attacked my cultural insecurities. the new kid with too much and too little of everything. the one used to richer whites and poorer Blacks. […]