United States
epub |eng | | Author:Ross Gay [Gay, Ross]

in my hands the grandmother leans against the doorjamb made of thick timbers with an undulating grain, pierced periodically with knots, like the tear-stained eyes of elephants, like terraced fields ...
( Category: Black & African American October 8,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Arielle Twist

Mother/Creator Creator,         I want you to know that I’m trying to cultivate         to create to learn        but I forget how to know I have not given up   I will remember in ...
( Category: Native American October 8,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

PHILLIS PETERS PREPARES A PROPOSAL TO PUBLISH A SECOND BOOK c. October 15, 1779 All her Wheatleys have left her or have died, and besides, during the War, she is ...
( Category: Black & African American October 8,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Rick Barot

THE NAMES Now it’s time for the lilac, blazon of spring, the prince of plants, whose name I know only when it blooms. The blooms called forth by a bare ...
( Category: Asian American October 8,2022 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-28 | Author:Rachel McKibbens [McKibbens, Rachel]

spent myself on the courageless, have wasted too many clocks on the less-deserving, so I hurl myself at the throne of you & lie humbly at your feet. Last Love, ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 8,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-23 | Author:Gwen Benaway

Forgiveness 1. forgiveness is a road you walk alone toward yourself. at the beginning and end of the road is the shadow of your childhood, asleep in the fallen trees, ...
( Category: Native American October 8,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-29 | Author:Rachel Eliza Griffiths

( Category: Black & African American October 8,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Hai-Dang Phan

SELF-PORTRAIT WITH NEW WEAPONS SYSTEMS You used to be thirty, now you’re something. Treat. Yo. Self. Cloths, fragrances, massages, Mimosas, and fine leather goods. This year let’s try Not to ...
( Category: Asian American October 8,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-09-08 | Author:Destiny O. Birdsong

before giving my most accurate account. Even in this moment, as I insist on looking away, on the hallucinogenic qualities of grief, my bones ask me to recite the date, ...
( Category: Black & African American October 7,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Yesika Salgado

Amargura h you asked me once lips wedged between mine, hands knuckle-deep into curls, bedsheets cocooning our bodies; would you be welcomed into this bed once married? the answer came ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-28 | Author:Lois Beardslee [Beardslee, Lois]

( Category: Native American October 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Laura Da' [Da', Laura]

( Category: Native American October 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Sherwin Bitsui

Radio waves groan under ashen dragonflies when you polish irradiated triggers   with scalped hair. Sage and creosote coat the withers of spray-painted horses. New suns sizzle from slits  in their golden ...
( Category: Native American October 7,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Blanco [Blanco, Richard]

EASY LYNCHING ON HERNDON AVENUE What I’d rather not see isn’t here: no rope, no black body under a white moon swaying limp from a tree, no bloodied drops of ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 7,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-26 | Author:Mahogany L. Browne

1I binge-watch the Australian television drama. After a several-week streaming stint I find myself crying, crying, crying for the world which held my father and uncles and brother and cousins ...
( Category: Black & African American October 7,2022 )