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From From by Monica Youn
epub |eng | 2022-12-15 | Author:Monica Youn [Youn, Monica]

In the previous two sections, I use the pronoun “they” rather than the pronoun “we.” This reflects my discomfort with including myself in the “they.” My family did not come ...
( Category: Asian American December 11,2023 )
Why Fathers Cry at Night by Kwame Alexander
epub |eng | 2023-05-23 | Author:Kwame Alexander [ALEXANDER, KWAME]

TOTAL TIME: 40 MINUTES MAKES: 4 SERVINGS CALORIES PER SERVING (3 PIECES): 840 COURSE: LUNCH OR DINNER It took poet me twelve tries to re-create my mother’s perfectly crispy-juicy fried ...
( Category: Black & African American November 15,2023 )
Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams
epub |eng | 2021-09-07 | Author:Phillip B. Williams [Williams, Phillip B.]

speculate late sixteenth century Spectacle Latin specere (to look) spectare →spectaculum (a public show) Old French spectacle Middle English To make, from one’s sight, a performance of what has been ...
( Category: Black & African American October 26,2023 )
No Enemies by Jimmy Santiago Baca
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Jimmy Santiago Baca

EDUCATION Overcast day, late Autumn six of us park in the lot tower guards and cameras monitor us as we enter the women’s prison in McCloud, Oklahoma. We make this ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 8,2023 )
Rose Quartz by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
epub |eng | | Author:Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

my skin was leaving my body organs hardening I tore the box open to the pink light bathed in rose oil drank down the rose wine ate petals swallowed thorns ...
( Category: Native American October 8,2023 )
Previously Owned by Nathan McClain
epub |eng | | Author:Nathan McClain [McClain, Nathan]

They said I was an alternate and looked closely at the defendant, the way a jeweler might inspect what he’s been sold to be a diamond, then looked at me ...
( Category: Black & African American October 8,2023 )
Raven's Echo by Robert Davis Hoffmann
epub |eng | 2022-10-25 | Author:Robert Davis Hoffmann [Hoffman, Robert Davis]

Blind Man could sample a tray of seaweeds and name the rocks they came from. In his day, every point of land had a name, every cliff, even big rocks. ...
( Category: Native American October 8,2023 )
Above Ground by Clint Smith
epub |eng | 2023-03-28 | Author:Clint Smith [SMITH, CLINT]

I think about where those babies are now. Do they laugh like you do? Do they wrap their fingers around their father’s thumb as they fall asleep? Do they smile ...
( Category: Black & African American October 8,2023 )
Swallowed Light by Michael Wasson
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Wasson

its frame to build a window back in- to the world. Had this body been held after all these years, I would enter you to find my frozen self & ...
( Category: Native American October 8,2023 )
Post Traumatic Hood Disorder by David Tomas Martinez
epub |eng | 2018-02-10 | Author:David Tomas Martinez

FALLING Nothing about wounded animals makes me weep, but something about a woman with eyelashes like broken wings, about a woman in red-bottomed heels and an absent father that pulls ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 1,2023 )
The Nightlife by Elise Paschen
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Elise Paschen

SECOND SIGHT Green Beach, former Navy land, Vieques Slick shale beneath our fins, we back into the ocean, and sink, witnessing how, through masks, seascapes, which from above appear as ...
( Category: Native American October 1,2023 )
Follow the Blackbirds by Gwen Nell Westerman
epub |eng | | Author:Gwen Nell Westerman [Westerman, Gwen Nell]

No Contest On a dusty Sunday afternoon, from my chair behind the drum, I watch for a treasured smile among the grass dancers. Singers warm up a contest song, and ...
( Category: Native American September 28,2023 )
Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán
epub |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Roy G. Guzmán [Guzmán, Roy G.]

QUEERODACTYL What we momentarily dubbed permission was fiery ocean-wrapped crag, toeless oath. This was our death dance, a slight whirlwind that softened my tail with the VapoRub pulse, nasty knots ...
( Category: Hispanic American September 17,2023 )
Duppy Conqueror by Kwame Dawes
epub |eng | | Author:Kwame Dawes

A deep-pink face webbed in canary-yellow netting, swaddled in infant finery — flesh soft to the eye. This is how we first met; you, unblinking, a week old, and the ...
( Category: Black & African American September 17,2023 )
You Can't Kill Me Twice by Charlyne Yi
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:Charlyne Yi

My first car was a rough relationship. First it started to smoke, then it started to drink, and then it died. She was embarrassed her life was receding like a ...
( Category: Asian American September 17,2023 )

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