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Amplify Poets of Color, Day 10

Amplify Poets of Color

Extraction, an excerpt by Tanaya Winder Can we un-suicide, un-pipeline,un-disappear our dear ones? There is no wordfor undo but many ways to say return.We never get to go back to beforeour fathers began evaporatingand our mothers started flooding themselvesinto unglobable rivers because their motherswere taken long ago. And, we are still searchingdragging rivers red until …

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Amplify Poets of Color, Day 9

Amplify Poets of Color

Como Tú / Like You / Like Me by Richard Blanco {for the D.A.C.A DREAMers and all our nation’s immigrants} . . . my veins don’t end in mebut in the unanimous bloodof those who struggle for life . . . . . . mis venas no terminan en mísino en la sange unánimede los …

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Amplify Poets of Color, Day 8

Amplify Poets of Color

We Are Remarkably Loud Not Masked by Juan Felipe Herrera young Jesse Washington —                                  even though you     on the wooden stickcross of fire bitten charred cut & burned        5 minute juryApril 15, 1916    Waco, Texas shackled & dragged — lynched                                                You live on                                                                 Trayvon Martin face downred juice on the lawn clutching candy rushing …

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Amplify Poets of Color, Day 7

Amplify Poets of Color

Another Heaven by Mai Der Vang I am but atoms Of old passengers Bereaved to my cloistered bones. This rotation is my recipe,The telling of every edition As a landscape on slow windshields.The body no longer                                    Baskets fatigue,No envelopes with oxygen left to cure. When funeral recitesThe supper gardens of my forefathers,Cross-stitch from …

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Amplify Poets of Color, Day 6

Amplify Poets of Color

Remember by Joy Harjo Remember the sky that you were born under,know each of the star’s stories.Remember the moon, know who she is.Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is thestrongest point of time. Remember sundownand the giving away to night.Remember your birth, how your mother struggledto give you form and breath. You are evidence …

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