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Tears for Water by Alicia Keys
epub |eng | 2005-11-02 | Author:Alicia Keys [Keys, Alicia]

( Category: Black & African American January 29,2023 )
Shadows Uplifted Volume III by C.S.R. Calloway
epub |eng | 2021-09-02 | Author:C.S.R. Calloway

When the year is blithe and young, Happiness on every tongue— After winter’s icy chains Lose their hold upon the plains; When the waters, rippling on, Tell the power of ...
( Category: Black & African American January 29,2023 )
The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Jenny Xie [Xie, Jenny]

And what did you understand of exile and closure? It was the last season of easeful transfers, of the elective reentry. Might as well prepare for the high contrast. Might ...
( Category: Asian American January 29,2023 )
Togetherness by Wo Chan
epub |eng | | Author:Wo Chan

All your potatoes on the ground—you were not meant for this. The camera zooms in on your front teeth tearing open a parcel of dried shrimp. Pink grains, packed with ...
( Category: Asian American January 29,2023 )
Even the Saints Audition by Raych Jackson
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Raych Jackson [Jackson, Rachel “Raych”]

Church Girl’s first sinner friend My mom thinks Natasha is a Good Black because she lives in the tall orange houses on 87th. What a conflicted color, orange. Which came ...
( Category: Black & African American January 29,2023 )
The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Paul Laurence Dunbar [Dunbar, Paul Laurence]

THE LYNCHING OF JUBE BENSON Gordon Fairfax’s library held but three men, but the air was dense with clouds of smoke. The talk had drifted from one topic to another ...
( Category: Black & African American January 29,2023 )
Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis
epub |eng | | Author:Rickey Laurentiis [Laurentiis, Rickey]

21. When did you decide to try your endurance, To turn back on this world dressed in a spectral night? You know it by the ash, the wake of the ...
( Category: Black & African American January 29,2023 )
Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Terrance Hayes

Slithering, their faces calculating absolutes while the trash bags Shimmered in a fiasco of light. When I looked up, I saw Boomie nearly twenty feet high in the arms of ...
( Category: Black & African American January 28,2023 )
Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Terrance Hayes

grain the only music he’d hear? Is this why you were quiet when other poets sang of the black man’s beauty? Is this why you choked on the tonsil of ...
( Category: Black & African American January 28,2023 )
Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Sally Wen Mao

The Bullies In 1997, the days were long, the sun bloodshot, and Mountain View, CA smelled like duck shit. Those days, everyone’s mind was a sex tape on repeat. Hirsute ...
( Category: Asian American January 19,2023 )
tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 by Lee Ann Roripaugh
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Lee Ann Roripaugh

please help me I am lost tsunami grrlsplains allergies fuck taupe, she says: milquetoasty blood cells band-aiding faux infections whitewashing the body’s narrative spinning a tail to wag the dog ...
( Category: Asian American January 19,2023 )
And after All by Rhina P. Espaillat
epub |eng | 2019-02-16 | Author:Rhina P. Espaillat

Is it because, like Navajos, we’re afraid to leave bits of ourselves among strangers who may suck in our spirits through them? No, it’s not fear of the stranger who’ll ...
( Category: Hispanic American January 19,2023 )
The City in Which I Love You by Li-Young
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Li-Young

Stack in me the unaccountable fire, bring on me the iron leaf, but tenderly. Folded one hundred times and creased, I’ll not crack. Threshed to excellence, I’ll achieve you. But ...
( Category: Asian American January 17,2023 )
The Golden Shovel Anthology by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

BILLY COLLINS Billy Collins’s latest collection is Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). He is the editor of Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180 ...
( Category: Black & African American January 17,2023 )
The Sky Watched by Linda LeGarde Grover
epub |eng | 2022-10-25 | Author:Linda LeGarde Grover [Grover, Linda LeGarde]

III Anishinaabewi The Refugees To the dirging of “The Way We Were” sung by some sweet girl nobody knows six pallbearers two in sweatshirts with faded logos three in dress ...
( Category: Native American January 17,2023 )

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