being poc Tag

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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Languages, English, Palestinian, George Abraham

apology by George Abraham

By T.

22 October 2022

659

"forgive the bodies i swallowed like broken teeth: the knees i spent trying to summon god in my own mouth:"

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being poc, body, death, despair, family, identity, memory, poetry, readalittlepoetry, suffering, surviving, wounds

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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Black Poets, LGBTQIA+, Languages, English, Cameron Awkward-Rich

Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich

By T.

919

"There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair."

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being human, being poc, city, dreams, grief, identity, loss, people, poetry, readalittlepoetry, wounds

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World, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, Languages, English, Rio Cortez

Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film by Rio Cortez

By T.

635

"Aging, at all. I want that. And to fall / perhaps most honestly in love / beside the ocean"

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being poc, body, growing old, identity, living, love, poetry, readalittlepoetry, relationships

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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Black Poets, Languages, English, Hanif Abdurraqib

If Life Is As Short As Our Ancestors Insist It Is, Why Isn’t Everything I Want Already At My Feet by Hanif Abdurraqib

By T.

28 September 2022

693

"I am a simple man. I want, mostly, / a year that will not kill me when it is over."

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being human, being poc, body, death, growing old, living, mortality, poetry, political, readalittlepoetry, small pleasures

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World, Tarfia Faizullah, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Asian American

Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth by Tarfia Faizullah

By T.

326

"I worry I can no longer pretend / enough to get through another / year of pretending

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anxiety, being human, being poc, community, existence, poetry, relationships, surviving

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World, Safia Elhillo, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, Languages, English

asmarani makes prayer by Safia Elhillo

By T.

217

"verily everything that is lost will be / given a name & will not come back / but will live forever"

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being named, being poc, body, diaspora, identity, journeys, loss, migration, poetry, truth

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World, Franny Choi, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English, Asian American

Turing Test by Franny Choi

By T.

228

"in order to contemplate lineage / you start with what you know / hands, hair, bones, sweat"

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being human, being poc, diaspora, language, migration, poetry, questions, self

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World, Warsan Shire, Poetry, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, Languages, English, United Kingdom

what they did yesterday afternoon by Warsan Shire

By T.

398

"later that night / i held an atlas in my lap / ran my fingers across the whole world / and whispered / where does it hurt?"

Tags:

being poc, despair, grief, poetry, political, prayers, water, world

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