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Jul 06
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 5
Kimchi by Franny Choi My parents’ love for each otherwas pickled in the brine of 1980,spent two decades fermenting in an air-tight promise.Their occasional salt caughta slow fever, began to taste like a buried secret. They chokedin each other’s vinegar, dug for pocketsof fresh-cut love, once green and whole, now a shrunken head, floating.Every night, …
Jul 05
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 4
We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise,In counting all our tears and sighs?Nay, let them only see …
Jul 04
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 3
Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson Lift every voice and sing,Till earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;Let our rejoicing riseHigh as the list’ning skies,Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,Sing a song full of the …
Jul 03
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 2
say it with your whole black mouth by Danez Smith say it with your whole black mouth: i am innocent & if you are not innocent, say this: i am worthy of forgiveness, of breath after breath i tell you this: i let blue eyes dress me in guiltwalked around stores convinced the very skin …
Jul 02
Amplify Poets of Color, Day 1
The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to be Bilingual by Ada Limón When you come, bring your brown-ness so we can be sure to please the funders. Will you check thisbox; we’re applying for a grant. Do you have any poems that speakto troubled teens? Bilingual is best. Would you like to come to …