- Nikki Giovanni
- CAConrad
- Juan Felipe Herrera
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- Sonia Sanchez
From this Issue
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poemBy CAConrad
a potato
born by
shovel
I am a
bride of
poetry in
my orange
and purple
gown an
unequaled
extinction
machine
pushing
strollers through
ecosystems of
concrete and plastic
we camel through the journey
with our new playbook for
where plunging hands go
don’t be weird
about this
you can be a
bride of
poetry
too
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poemBy Sandra CisnerosThese days I admitI am wide as a tule tree.My underwear protests.And yet,I like myself bestwithout clothes whenI can admire myselfas God made me, stilldivine as a maja.Wide as a fertility goddess,though infertile. I am,as they say,in decline. Teethworn down,...
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poemBy Rita DoveMayhap—whata curious word,all misfortune andcircumstance or pureterror (as soon as fategets her handon the string). Whydo we need free will,anyway? What is thisbeautiful freedomwe long for, then promptlygrow bored within?I meant to sayperhaps, but thisconjoined relic slipped outinstead. What was...
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Table of Contents
POEMS
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Adrian Matejka
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CAConrad
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
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- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
- From “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return”
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John Olivares Espinoza
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Sandra Cisneros
- At Fifty I Am Startled to Find I Am in My Splendor
- Cielo con sombrero
- Sky Wearing a Hat
- Year of My Near Death
- El Jardín, End of Day
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Jericho Brown
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Virginia C. Fowler
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Nikki Giovanni
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Lauro Flores
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Patricia Spears Jones
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Keith Gilyard
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Camille T. Dungy
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Michael Simanga
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Sonia Sanchez
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Chet Weise
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Forrest Gander
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Arthur Sze
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Contributors
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