As if some little Arctic flower” was originally written in 1890 by Emily Dickinson. The poem would later be published in The ...

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 ...

This evening there is a ruckus on Main St. I lift my head, and see Nancy who just came from The Pride event at the 11th St.

Ofelia Zepeda, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of southwestern Arizona, was born in Arizona in 1952. She received a BA, ...

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 old.

“The Yellow Corn” appears in Poems by Charles G. Eastman (Eastman & Danforth, 1848).

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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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 ...

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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