BOOM Magazine Denver

An excerpt from "An Interview with Principal Don Roy," by Ryan Dean, forthcoming in our Spring Issue. The new principal of Manual High School says, "But I'll also say this: my style is not to come into this like a madman and change and disrupt everything. I want to be gradual and consistent and hopefully inspire consistent, gradual and methodical improvement."

More about Marquita. She loves horses. Can you tell?

Select lines of a new poem by Marquita:
Drunkards flit around the grimy slabs of concrete,
those concrete slabs with the grab holds
from who-knows-when and barely any light
from the mini-city shines between those slabs,
letting those half-graceful drunkards go down
that alleyway blindly.