By Frank X Walker
Humiliate her mother at every checkpoint.
Replace the Second Surah with air raids and shelling.
Reduce…
Replace the Second Surah with air raids and shelling.
Reduce…
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- By Frank X WalkerWhen we first left Kentucke
the trees had commenced to dressing up
the fall harvest an the garden
was already… - By Frank X Walkerthoroughbred racing
and hee haw
are burdensome images
for kentucky sons
venturing beyond the mason-dixon… - By Darrel Alejandro HolnesI speak in the fold of the map—
creased between empire and salt.
Mother braided three names into my … - By Frank X WalkerThe sound of a race is music but like nothing with
strings or words. You’d need a hundred men with
… - By Lisa LowThis white man is known for his tallness. When he was in high school, people suggested he play basketball…
- By Terrance HayesZora Neal Hurston spent time
in the low country
interviewing & filming
kids on corners & folk at work,
but… - By Lisa LowYou track the proliferation of white male/Asian female couples on the street, in your friend groups,…
From “People Who Look Like You” [“The tall white man joins a white affinity group with his cousins”]
By Lisa LowThe tall white man joins a white affinity group with his cousins, even the one who questioned the group…- By Lisa LowA tall white man beside you on a hike, a tall white man eating ice cream beside you, the white man who…
- By Lisa LowIt’s easy to conflate whiteness with having an easy life, so you sometimes mistake the tall white man…
- By E. Ethelbert Millerthe king’s haiku
Martin Luther King
Dancing on his mountaintop
Love raining on earth
rosa’s haiku… - By E. Ethelbert MillerDear America, my love.
If my blackness turns to fruit
do not pull it from the vine;
let it grow from… - By E. Ethelbert Miller“I can’t breathe,” he said.
But there was no air.
Only the absence of trees
and rope. The swaying
of… - By E. Ethelbert Milleri suppose i should be
grateful to the white man
letting me out. where can
a black man in america go… - By E. Ethelbert Millerandre’s father
was from haiti
he was a happy man
who kept a jar
of white people
in his window
kept… - By E. Ethelbert Millerin cuba
a dark skin woman asks me
if i’m from angola
i try to explain in the no spanish i know
that… - By January Gill O’NeilI caught her on reruns—Nichelle Nichols
from the original Star Trek series. She was
Black like me. … - By Darius Simpsondo you remember in fifth grade
when i was all of eighty pounds
soaking wet and fully clothed
i told you… - By Anthony JosephFor Kamau,
for the furtive sound
of his phonaesthetic exegesis,
for his secret technology
of liquid …