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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 )
Ostinato Vamps by Wanda Coleman
epub |eng | | Author:Wanda Coleman [Coleman, Wanda]

telling fortunes on the side drew extra cash. all those gold & silver rings financed by the afterlife. the child was enchanted and held her virgin breath between Mama's visits ...
( Category: Black & African American December 12,2022 )
Tonguebreaker: Poems and Performance Texts by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
epub |eng | 2019-12-15 | Author:Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

5. ritual prayers: performance texts from mangos with chili introduction: qtpoc disabled ritual prayers The following pieces are longer performance texts I wrote and performed with and for Mangos With ...
( Category: Asian American December 12,2022 )
Winter Roses after Fall by Robert M. Drake and r.h. Sin
epub |eng | 2021-10-06 | Author:Robert M. Drake and r.h. Sin

Nostalgia is a pretty lie, the past filtered in all the pretty colors you like. You admire what’s behind you, moments no longer filled with life, while neglecting the present ...
( Category: Black & African American December 11,2022 )
This Is My Century by Margaret Walker
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Margaret Walker

OXFORD IS A LEGEND OXFORD is a legend Where battlements were placed One flaming night And they fought the civil war all over again With a rebel yell, and rebel ...
( Category: Black & African American December 10,2022 )
ESL or You Weren't Here by Aldrin Valdez
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Aldrin Valdez

The white urologist does not contain his laughter as he holds my genitals during a checkup. I am not a man. I am quiet as he advises me to press ...
( Category: Asian American December 5,2022 )
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
epub |eng | 2018-03-08 | Author:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

2. We make new friends then lose them. 3. We never bake another goddamn pie again. Either way it’s a terrible future. It’s a movie where no one seems interested ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 5,2022 )
Breath Better Spent by DaMaris Hill
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:DaMaris Hill

NEVER GROW OLD: PART TWO (for Dr. Kim Richards, UBWSLI NoLa2014) You are old as you will ever be, galloping in a dance studio with an ancient girl, ancient as ...
( Category: Black & African American December 4,2022 )
Mankiller Poems by Wilma Mankiller
epub |eng | 2022-04-28 | Author:Wilma Mankiller

And Mankiller successfully changed the nature of the national story because, as she once said, “I can eliminate any stereotypes about what a chief looks like.” Of course, the Redbirds ...
( Category: Native American December 4,2022 )
Reliquaria by R.A. Villanueva
epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:R.A. Villanueva [Villanueva, R. A.]

Traps Scatter poison across a plate and slide dish and all beneath the edge of an overturned wastebin where a mouse is trapped. Tell yourself there is no other way. ...
( Category: Asian American December 3,2022 )
Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez
epub |eng | 1995-12-15 | Author:Sonia Sanchez [Sanchez, Sonia]

Part III Negritude is what one race brings to the common rendezvous where all will strive for the new world of the poet’s vision. C. L. R. James Love Song ...
( Category: Black & African American December 3,2022 )
All the Blood Involved in Love by Maya Marshall
epub |eng | | Author:Maya Marshall

Lavender Menace Considers the Lovers in the Photograph after Teddy and Chris by Preston Gannaway The men nestle, one inched in to the cleft of his love’s thighs. They wait ...
( Category: Black & African American December 3,2022 )

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