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The Republics by Nathalie Handal
epub |eng | | Author:Nathalie Handal [Handal, Nathalie]

Portrait of Stillness He tricked the boiled water to stay still. He painted the room florescent green and added a rug he found, damaged but a cool blue. There is ...
( Category: Asian American January 17,2023 )
99 Poems by Dana Gioia
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Dana Gioia [Gioia, Dana]

COUNTING THE CHILDREN I. “This must have been her bedroom, Mr. Choi. It’s hard to tell. The only other time I came back here was when I found her body.” ...
( Category: Hispanic American January 17,2023 )
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Unknown
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Unknown

■to my friend, jerina listen, when i found there was no safety in my father’s house i knew there was none anywhere. you are right about this, how i ...
( Category: Black & African American January 14,2023 )
Invocations (Warhammer Horror) by unknow
azw3 |eng | 2019-12-07 | Author:unknow

Fading He could hear Johann running around to the other side of the cottage, pounding over the hard-packed ground. ‘He’s gone that way!’ Johann shouted. ‘Past the shed and onto ...
( Category: Asian American January 13,2023 )
African-American Poetry by Joan R. Sherman
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Joan R. Sherman

Prayers have risen, risen, risen, From the cotton fields and prison; Though the overseer stood with lash in hand, Groaned the overburdened heart; Not a tear-drop dared to start — ...
( Category: Black & African American January 9,2023 )
Diwata by Barbara Reyes
epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Barbara Reyes

This place before him was not a void but a crawl space, a tunnel he carved for himself inside his mother’s body dying all around him. He broke right through ...
( Category: Hispanic American January 5,2023 )
Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Rita Dove

RIGHT-HAND MAIDEN: (impatiently) So you can’t go to “The Black Camel” because you don’t know about it yet! HEAD MAIDEN: According to our records . . . (unscrolls a lengthy, ...
( Category: Black & African American January 5,2023 )
Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun
epub |eng | | Author:Jihyun Yun [Yun, Jihyun]

Menstruation Triptych I. Happy to be bleeding, I fold the unused test into the black hem of my pocket just to carry this solitude with me. Seedless belly, beloved fallow, ...
( Category: Asian American December 23,2022 )
A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying by Laurie Ann Guerrero
epub |eng | 2014-07-17 | Author:Laurie Ann Guerrero [Guerrero, Laurie Ann]

STRAY CAT She was fat. Round as the moon, just as gray. She didn’t have time for hiding, for safety, for hissing away onlookers. Her legs jerked and out rolled ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 23,2022 )
Apologies That Never Came by Pierre Alex Jeanty
epub |eng | 2019-05-03 | Author:Pierre Alex Jeanty

Unfortunately This pain, it aches deep. To take off your armor and lay it at the feet of someone who you hold dear, only for them to create a losing ...
( Category: Black & African American December 21,2022 )
Jelly Roll Blues by Unknown
pdf | | | Author:Unknown

( Category: Black & African American December 21,2022 )
Field Study by Chet'la Sebree
epub |eng | | Author:Chet'la Sebree

Is it the Taurus in me seeking the path of most resistance: single parenthood, poetry, and, once upon a time, you? * * * I love the title of Barbara ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
Machete by Tomás Q. Morín
epub |eng | 2021-10-12 | Author:Tomás Q. Morín [Morín, Tomás Q.]

Royal Silence for c. dale young This much I know, as I came down the mountain and the valleys were revealed and my ears clogged so that all I could ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 19,2022 )
Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
epub |eng | 2022-01-18 | Author:Darrel Alejandro Holnes

by remembering, as she desperately closes her eyes like fists and fights you to forget— A woman you can’t stop loving, come bruise or blood shine. Hold her, if you ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 19,2022 )
Somebody Else Sold the World by Adrian Matejka
epub |eng | 2021-07-06 | Author:Adrian Matejka [Matejka, Adrian]

GYMNOPÉDIES NO. 3 This sunlight on snow. This decrescendo of covered stumps & brush—stop for it. Stop before the sled end-over-ends down the chin of the hill—the way it always ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )

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