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Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Sonia Sanchez [Sanchez, Sonia]

A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Dear Martin, Great God, what a morning, Martin! The sun is rolling in from faraway places. I watch it reaching out, circling these ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
Dark Traffic by Joan Naviyuk Kane
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Naviyuk Kane [Kane, Joan Naviyuk]

TERROR (& EREBUS) Our hero crosses his own heart on his way down to hell. Past those little bones she bore within: those brittle bones should not have been. After ...
( Category: Native American December 19,2022 )
Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Benjamin Garcia

A Toast to the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The waitress tending our party of three dips her tanned torso over the table as she grabs the menus from us ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 19,2022 )
Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Juan Felipe Herrera

Address Book for the Firefly on the Road North #3 when we reach the family shrine made of twigs bitten cloth shrubs & dirt we bow Interview w/a Border Machine ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 19,2022 )
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Walker

I PRAY FOR YOU I pray for you to love the precious body this lifetime has given you as I love it. In youth every speeding motorcycle beckoned to turn ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body by Alberto Ríos
epub |eng | | Author:Alberto Ríos

The sudden angle of beginning. ORANGES IN A TREE 1 The oranges in a tree won’t fly away If you’re quiet. If you’re quiet You can see them in their ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 18,2022 )
Singing at the Gates: Selected Poems by Jimmy Santiago Baca
epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

SOMETIMES I LONG FOR THE SWEET MADNESS The mystery that would spiral my soul into a seashell some seafaring explorer would blow in his coming, his arrival, his company, his ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 18,2022 )
Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
epub |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Bao Phi

What if this is the best we can be? When we realize phrases like “Be who you were meant to be” make no sense at all. Look into a burnt-out ...
( Category: Asian American December 17,2022 )
Vulnerable AF by Tarriona "Tank" Ball
epub |eng | 2021-05-25 | Author:Tarriona "Tank" Ball

“You” Stuff You are smelly hair That I play in way too much You are little lips That I crave more than I should You are fingers everywhere but the ...
( Category: Black & African American December 17,2022 )
Velvet Dragonflies by Billy Chapata
epub |eng | 2022-10-27 | Author:Billy Chapata

conversations that feel like a cleanse, conversations that give you oxygen, conversations that feel like water, conversations that give you life, intentional conversations, you are worthy of that. ( if ...
( Category: Black & African American December 16,2022 )
She's Strong, But She's Tired by r.h. Sin
epub |eng | 2020-09-10 | Author:r.h. Sin

Sincerely, a stranger who cares, r.h. Sin you wear sadness as a winter coat draped over your body so perfectly hanging on to your shoulders for dear life as it ...
( Category: Black & African American December 15,2022 )
Woman Without Shame by Sandra Cisneros
epub |eng | 2022-09-13 | Author:Sandra Cisneros [Cisneros, Sandra]

For the New Year I will buy myself a chocolate éclair filled with custard. Eat it slowly, with an infinity of joy, without concern of woe and tight underwear. Susan’s ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 15,2022 )
Lineage of Rain by Janel Pineda
epub |eng | 2021-01-08 | Author:Janel Pineda

II. Fellowship Application The Commission’s criteria includes: (1) Ability to be Tokenized (2) Strength of Migrant Mentality (3) Diplomatic Disposition (4) Self-care or private health insurance. (The fourth category was ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 15,2022 )
Revenge Body by Rachel Wiley
epub |eng | 2022-01-12 | Author:Rachel Wiley

PROZAC 30MG When the doctor asked if I was suicidal I told her that I’d called off work one day last week to sit on my balcony and witness the ...
( Category: Black & African American December 15,2022 )
Desgraciado by Angel Dominguez
epub |eng | | Author:Angel Dominguez

Dear Diego, The world is going to end before I ever stop writing to you. Diego, the problem is that we don’t want it enough; it’s that it doesn’t matter ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 15,2022 )

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