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Jul 26
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 25
On Teaching My Son How to Mourn by Khaty Xiong I tell him to touch his toes. He reaches for them in a squat.He stabs them with his little fingers. One toe. Two toes.Then we say our letters, spell out all the sounds we will deliver because the death of a child is no small death.I …
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 …