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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light by Joy Harjo
epub |eng | 2022-10-07 | Author:Joy Harjo

TOBACCO ORIGIN STORY It was way back, before there was a way back When time threaded earth and sky Children were conceived, were born, grew, and walked tall In what ...
( Category: Native American February 16,2023 )
Relinquenda by Alexandra Regalado
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Alexandra Regalado [Regalado, Alexandra Lytton]

Portrait of My Father X Days Before Dying He has been dying for six years. The first cancer took hold in his throat, the tumor like a pit of amber, ...
( Category: Hispanic American February 16,2023 )
Selected Poems by Carl Sandburg
epub |eng | 2022-05-18 | Author:Carl Sandburg

Forgotten Wars Be loose. Be easy. Be ready. Forget the last war. Forget the one before. Forget the one yet to come. Be loose and easy about the wars whether ...
( Category: Black & African American February 16,2023 )
Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die by Tawanda Mulalu
epub |eng | 2022-07-18 | Author:Tawanda Mulalu

ELEGY from weather. Everything this morning is white and light is low. I played adult on the playground, watched them. Now their sodden soles, melting into the classroom’s linoleum. I ...
( Category: Black & African American February 16,2023 )
God, Me, or Karma by Tina Red
epub |eng | 2020-02-19 | Author:Tina Red

If I knew I would be taking out this much trash in my adult years, I would have saved myself $50k in student loans and became a janitor. STOLE Why ...
( Category: Black & African American February 16,2023 )
The Boyfriend Book by Michael E. Reid
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Michael E. Reid [Reid, Michael E.]

Practice During the Miami leg of the tour, there was a young lady aged eighteen who told me that she liked the idea of having a boyfriend. She said, “It ...
( Category: Black & African American February 9,2023 )
Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin
epub |eng | 2016-07-23 | Author:Sun Yung Shin

“No Record” Orphan (hojuk). In her article “Our Adoptee, Our Alien: Transnational Adoptees as Specters of Family and Foreignness in Korea,” Eleana Kim explains how the “orphan hojuk” and the ...
( Category: Asian American February 9,2023 )
Woman Without Shame: Poems 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 February 9,2023 )
Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph
epub |eng | 2016-08-24 | Author:Janine Joseph

I’m impressed. I give him the Mojave, turn the succulents to the heavens and start again. See this, I say and chug my arms. This is what a train does ...
( Category: Asian American February 9,2023 )
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni
epub |eng | | Author:Nikki Giovanni

“We didn’t travel much during those days. I’m partial to trains because I’m from a teeny tiny town and the train would go through in the morning and come back ...
( Category: Black & African American February 8,2023 )
Split by Cathy Linh Che
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Cathy Linh Che

Doc— In Vietnam, the landscape is aftermath— tourist shops, sunbathers, packs of motorbikes— there were still bomb craters and in them, the grass grown in. No one talked of the ...
( Category: Asian American February 7,2023 )
Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
epub |eng | | Author:Nate Marshall [Marshall, Nate]

Chicago high school love letters spring break 214. i know all the museum free days by heart. you the exhibit i steal touch from in shadow. 226. i’ll stay with ...
( Category: Black & African American February 6,2023 )
Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Olzmann

See? Dave is kind of right: I have no idea who you really are. What does it mean? It means you could be the doomed man among the waves, the ...
( Category: Asian American February 5,2023 )
Ostensio reliquiarum: Untersuchungen über Entstehung, Ausbreitung, Gestalt und Funktion der Heiltumsweisungen im römisch-deutschen Regnum by Hartmut Kühne
pdf |en | | Author: Hartmut Kühne

( Category: Asian American February 2,2023 )
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
epub |eng | | Author:Chen Chen

Things the Grackles Bring An eggy disaster. An opulently abandoned theatre. A jade box of childhood fears. A library book overdue & despised. A highway beautification with a rerun of ...
( Category: Asian American February 2,2023 )

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