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Born in a Second Language by Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie [Afiriyie-Hwedie, Akosua Zimba]

The incredible at midnight: my body is all wakefulness all moon in tight dress my eyes hibiscus filled a girl I do not know smiles at me my body corrects ...
( Category: African October 5,2022 )
I Am in Bed with You by Emma Barnes
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Emma Barnes

Sigourney Weaver in the womb This is the point where I tell you that Sigourney Weaver is one year, eleven months and three days younger than my mother. When Sigourney ...
( Category: Contemporary October 5,2022 )
Mirror of Refining Insight by M. A. Grayson
epub |eng | | Author:M. A. Grayson [Grayson, M. A.]

* * * Thanks to Mom and even the Mr. Moms for their sacrifices, aunts and uncles too. Some have arrived and matured to keep an eye on, guide the ...
( Category: Black & African American October 5,2022 )
Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Crystal Wilkinson

BLACK BODY My black body is a boulder, a stop sign. Sometimes i think my body is graceful, a song of freedom. Sometimes i think it is something that every ...
( Category: Places October 5,2022 )
A Clear Dawn by Paula Morris
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Paula Morris

Sarah MAY POETRY Sarah May () was born in Hong Kong and is of mixed Korean and Pākehā heritage. She is currently studying English and Psychology at the University of ...
( Category: Anthologies October 5,2022 )
These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit by Hayan Charara
epub |eng | | Author:Hayan Charara

/// The more resolutely you plumb the question “Who or what am I?”— the more unavoidable the realization that you are nothing at all apart from everything else. Yet again, ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku October 5,2022 )
Gathering the Tide by Patty Paine
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Patty Paine

Give me a berry’s leaf so that I can cover my eyes and not see the flaws of history. Give me a morphine injection, or a morsel of hashish so ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 5,2022 )
A Wild Peculiar Joy by Irving Layton
epub |eng | 2004-03-23 | Author:Irving Layton [Layton, Irving]

The pillar of fire: their flesh made it; It burned briefly and died — you all know where. Now in their own blood they temper the steel, God being dead ...
( Category: Canadian October 5,2022 )
Hearts, Cages, and other Locked Boxes by A. E. Bratchford
epub |eng | 2022-07-19 | Author:A. E. Bratchford

Acknowledgements I’ve always loved reading the acknowledgements pages in a novel. Seeing the support and love behind these authors is amazing, and for me, it is no different. This collection ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Poetry October 5,2022 )
This River Here by Carmen Tafolla
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Carmen Tafolla

Burying the Hatchet a swirling confluence of voices dances up through tree branches and into the white clouds where something in the wind gives my lungs new air my eyes ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 5,2022 )
Sonnets and Salsa by Carmen Tafolla
epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Carmen Tafolla

We never die We never die. We go through the trees in sunlight hoping to be seen. We never die. We amass ourselves in sand dunes awaiting patiently the one ...
( Category: United States October 5,2022 )
1989, the Number by Kevin Coval
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Kevin Coval

the next decade would be the spike in murders in both towns. the leak of industry out of the middle. but now he was mid-air middle of the court / ...
( Category: Black & African American October 5,2022 )
Midland by Kwame Dawes
epub |eng | | Author:Kwame Dawes

Memory of a Garden The dignified mourners, blued by the waning light, shawled in silk, transparent as their sorrow, crawl through the meandering paths of this garden, while a woman ...
( Category: Black & African American October 5,2022 )
Drive: the First Quartet by Lorna Dee Cervantes
epub |eng | 2006-10-15 | Author:Lorna Dee Cervantes [Cervantes, Lorna Dee]

“Good writing makes me cry,” she said, listening to some failed actress read Elizabeth B. Browning into dawn. “How do I love you?/ Let me count the …” days, I ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 5,2022 )
In Nearby Bushes by Kei Miller
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Kei Miller [Kei Miller]

TO CONSIDER THE NEARBY BUSHES To consider the nearby bushes – a stretch of canefield perhaps, or the crotons behind the house – is to consider the nameless places, or ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American October 5,2022 )

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