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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 )
The Republics by Nathalie Handal
epub |eng | | Author:Nathalie Handal [Handal, Nathalie]

Portrait of Stillness He tricked the boiled water to stay still. He painted the room florescent green and added a rug he found, damaged but a cool blue. There is ...
( Category: Asian American January 17,2023 )
99 Poems by Dana Gioia
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Dana Gioia [Gioia, Dana]

COUNTING THE CHILDREN I. “This must have been her bedroom, Mr. Choi. It’s hard to tell. The only other time I came back here was when I found her body.” ...
( Category: Hispanic American January 17,2023 )
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Unknown
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Unknown

■to my friend, jerina listen, when i found there was no safety in my father’s house i knew there was none anywhere. you are right about this, how i ...
( Category: Black & African American January 14,2023 )
Invocations (Warhammer Horror) by unknow
azw3 |eng | 2019-12-07 | Author:unknow

Fading He could hear Johann running around to the other side of the cottage, pounding over the hard-packed ground. ‘He’s gone that way!’ Johann shouted. ‘Past the shed and onto ...
( Category: Asian American January 13,2023 )
African-American Poetry by Joan R. Sherman
epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Joan R. Sherman

Prayers have risen, risen, risen, From the cotton fields and prison; Though the overseer stood with lash in hand, Groaned the overburdened heart; Not a tear-drop dared to start — ...
( Category: Black & African American January 9,2023 )
Diwata by Barbara Reyes
epub |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Barbara Reyes

This place before him was not a void but a crawl space, a tunnel he carved for himself inside his mother’s body dying all around him. He broke right through ...
( Category: Hispanic American January 5,2023 )
Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Rita Dove

RIGHT-HAND MAIDEN: (impatiently) So you can’t go to “The Black Camel” because you don’t know about it yet! HEAD MAIDEN: According to our records . . . (unscrolls a lengthy, ...
( Category: Black & African American January 5,2023 )
Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun
epub |eng | | Author:Jihyun Yun [Yun, Jihyun]

Menstruation Triptych I. Happy to be bleeding, I fold the unused test into the black hem of my pocket just to carry this solitude with me. Seedless belly, beloved fallow, ...
( Category: Asian American December 23,2022 )
A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying by Laurie Ann Guerrero
epub |eng | 2014-07-17 | Author:Laurie Ann Guerrero [Guerrero, Laurie Ann]

STRAY CAT She was fat. Round as the moon, just as gray. She didn’t have time for hiding, for safety, for hissing away onlookers. Her legs jerked and out rolled ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 23,2022 )
Apologies That Never Came by Pierre Alex Jeanty
epub |eng | 2019-05-03 | Author:Pierre Alex Jeanty

Unfortunately This pain, it aches deep. To take off your armor and lay it at the feet of someone who you hold dear, only for them to create a losing ...
( Category: Black & African American December 21,2022 )
Jelly Roll Blues by Unknown
pdf | | | Author:Unknown

( Category: Black & African American December 21,2022 )

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