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Sightseer in This Killing City by Eugene Gloria
epub |eng | 2019-06-04 | Author:Eugene Gloria [Gloria, Eugene]

A MUTINY OF FLOWERS We sacked three kingdoms in a day for want of flowers Throats bared, our cries choked for want of flowers And there the armies of wandering ...
( Category: Asian American September 17,2023 )
Not Go Away Is My Name by Alberto Ríos
epub |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Alberto Ríos

Baseball on the Mexican Border Baseball in the fifties was a fever on the border, Semipro leagues in bloom all over Sonora— The Tomateros, the tomato growers, The back-and-forth of ...
( Category: Hispanic American September 17,2023 )
The Big Melt by Emily Riddle
epub |eng | 2022-11-19 | Author:Emily Riddle

sitting in the back seat of a truck on the way through battleford, i think about how mistahi maskwa lived peaceful refusal, what he would have thought of the hockey ...
( Category: Native American September 15,2023 )
Unfold by Ari B. Cofer
epub |eng | 2023-09-15 | Author:Ari B. Cofer

it shouldn’t have happened, but it did. we are mammals with god complexes and it’s human nature to submit to desire. to the pull of his hands on my waist, ...
( Category: Black & African American September 15,2023 )
A Good Cry by Nikki Giovanni
epub |eng | 2017-09-13 | Author:Nikki Giovanni

STEP A LITTLE CLOSER There was a man, Denmark Vesey, who gathered some of the enslaved men and women around and planned a rebellion. The irony is, had he been ...
( Category: Black & African American September 15,2023 )
Homegirls and Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez
epub |eng | 2023-09-15 | Author:Sonia Sanchez [Sanchez, Sonia]

HAIKU i see you blackboy bent toward destruction watching for death with tight eyes I HAVE WALKED A LONG TIME i have walked a long time much longer than death ...
( Category: Black & African American September 13,2023 )
Pangaea by Hinnah Mian
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Hinnah Mian

I GUESS IT’S MY FAULT FOR OPENING THE DOOR I’ve been over the locks on my heart a hundred times—polished the chains until they were silver enough to see my ...
( Category: Asian American September 13,2023 )
Now and Then - the poems of Gil Scott-Heron by Gil Scott-Heron
epub |eng | 2000-07-13 | Author:Gil Scott-Heron [Gil Scott-Heron]

Just 30 miles from Detroit Stands a giant power station That ticks each night as the city sleeps Just seconds from annihilation But no one stops to think about the ...
( Category: Black & African American September 11,2023 )
Imaginary Vessels by Paisley Rekdal
epub |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:Paisley Rekdal

the tight braids my brother’s maid has bound to my scalp, the wallpaper with its fists of buds, its water stain from a summer storm that’s spread to the shape ...
( Category: Asian American September 7,2023 )
Milk Black Carbon by Joan Naviyuk Kane
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Naviyuk Kane [Kane, Joan Naviyuk]

Assiraġia Taalutabluu ialiq. Nalunaqtuq. Sillaga tammaighiga. uniplaaguruq samma suli— nalliġaġlau. Ganuqtun itpa? I Am Copying Him Drag the dark into the room. I have something to confess. My heaven I ...
( Category: Native American September 7,2023 )
Protection Spell by Jennifer Givhan
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Givhan [Givhan, Jennifer]

Earlier in the day he took a sage smudge stick and burned it across our doorways, our walls. I didn’t choke on the smoke. I explain to my white father ...
( Category: Hispanic American September 7,2023 )
A Gallery of Harlem Portraits by Melvin B. Tolson; Robert M. Farnsworth
pdf |en | | Author: Melvin B. Tolson; Robert M. Farnsworth

( Category: Black & African American September 4,2023 )
The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems by Sally Wen Mao
epub |eng | 2023-09-15 | Author:Sally Wen Mao [Mao, Sally Wen]

The Lion and the Unicorn As if by magic, the distance between East and West, spanning perspectives that are often perceived as monolithic and diametrically opposed, diminishes. So, too, does ...
( Category: Asian American September 3,2023 )
Dark Testament by Pauli Murray
epub |eng | 2018-08-16 | Author:Pauli Murray

All written down in a public record— Exchanged our pride for a Case Number— The city’s poor, society’s backwash, Painfully learning the rules of the destitute. We have remembered what ...
( Category: Black & African American August 17,2023 )
Corazón by Yesika Salgado
epub |eng | | Author:Yesika Salgado

you, sin and savior my penance God’s name on my lips as you make a tabernacle of me Amherst I am in a hotel room on the other side of ...
( Category: Hispanic American August 17,2023 )

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