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A Black Genius
Born in 1938, Ishmael Reed is the author of many collections of poems and essays, as well as several novels, and he is also well known for his contributions to jazz and blues music, as both a lyricist ...
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As if some little Arctic flower
As if some little Arctic flower” was originally written in 1890 by Emily Dickinson. The poem would later be published in The ...
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Felix Cortes
Felix Cortes is a poet and activist. He was born in Puerto Rico in 1950 and migrated to New York City when he was two years ...
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A Cry from an Indian Wife
A Cry from an Indian Wife” originally appeared in Emily Pauline Johnson’s first volume of poetry, The White Wampum, which was published in 1895 in Boston, London, and Toronto by Lamson, Wolffe and ...
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The Yellow Corn
“The Yellow Corn” appears in Poems by Charles G. Eastman (Eastman & Danforth, 1848).
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The Home of the Sacred
Ofelia Zepeda, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of southwestern Arizona, was born in Arizona in 1952. She received a BA, ...
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Delayza’s Necklace
Delayza puts her hand in mine. The seated crowd hinders her view. I lift her above the masses— a butterfly beyond reach. Her irises bloom to the choir and drumbeats rumbling nearby snowflakes. I set ...
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Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
Featuring over 90 artworks to be presented in the museum’s iconic rotunda, this major exhibition will examine the vibrant abstract art of Orphism. It will explore the transnational movement’s ...
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Twerk Villanelle
round bodied booty, bounce a praise ballad. she break hold, turn whole in a twerk session. body charmed, spell-bent, toward progressing. Porsha Olayiwola is the author of the collection i shimmer ...
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Lupe Mendez
Lupe Mendez is the author of Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), which won the 2019 John A. Robertson Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. An educator, curriculum writer and literary ...
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Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is the author of WATCHNIGHT (Nightboat Books, 2024), the recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ 2023 James Laughlin Award, and SLINGSHOT (Nightboat Books, 2019), winner of ...
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La suavecita
our shot-gun house. She won’t stop smiling. My mother loves the color yellow. There is a sing, a flow around inside. My daughter ooooos the color teal. Lupe Mendez is the author of Why I Am Like ...