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Jul 25
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 24
The End of Exile by Solmaz Sharif As the dead, so I cometo the city I am of.Am without. To watch play out around meas theater — audience as the dead are audience to the life that is not mine.Is as notas never. Turning down Shiraz’s streetsit turns out to be such a faraway thing. …
Jul 24
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 23
A Palestinian Might Say by Naomi Shihab Nye What?You don’t feel at home in your country,almost overnight?All the simple thingsyou cared about,maybe took for granted. . .you feelinsulted, invisible?Almost as if you’re not there?But you’re there.Where before you mingled freely. . .appreciated people who weren’tjust like you. . .divisions grow stronger.That’s what “chosen” and “unchosen” …
Jul 23
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 22
Guts, an excerpt by Jane Wong I enter a room.A cat vomits as if to say welcome home. Scatteredbones on the floor, tiles of fur and fever:welcome. Outside, the parks are rinsed clean. Grass spraysacross my window. This clean violencefor the Green and Livid. · Nothing I say leavesthis room. Not a foot, not a …
Jul 22
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 21
My California by Lee Herrick Here, an olive votive keeps the sunset lit,the Korean twenty-somethings talk about hyphens, graduate school and good pot. A group of four at a windowtable in Carpinteria discuss the quality of wines in Napa Valley versus Lodi. Here, in my California, the streets remember the Chicanopoet whose songs still bank …
Jul 21
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 20
When Night Fills With Premature Exits by Enzo Silon Surin Is there a place where black men can goto be beautiful? Is there light there? Touch? Is there comfort or room to raise their blacksons as anything other than a future asterisk, at risk to be asteroid or rogue planet but notcomet—to be studded with …