Nepantla: an anthology for queer poets of color

Introduction

Don't let the fascists speak / Pat Parker

once a marine biologist told me octopuses have three hearts / Denice Frohman

I haven't had a Sazerac since Indiana / Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa

Someday I'll love the ocean / Ocean Vuong

Poem about police violence / June Jordan

The [Black] outs : listen / Steffan Triplett

Elegy with my mother's lipstick / Paul Tran

Riot Act, April 29, 1992 / Ai

Power / Audre Lorde

Excerpt from Dream vision in blue and black / Ronaldo V. Wilson

feeding my starving / Caleb Luna

Quantitative reasoning / Chen Chen

Layover / Jericho Brown

Hurryer ___thruu [

- ...... ++++] /

Fatima Espiritu

On grace / Danez Smith

for stan / Adrian Stanford

Cenzóntle / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Actually, yes, everything is about race / Madison Johnson

Preference / Albert Park

On the plane, I get so much ass / Arisa White

Excerpt from Food / Tommy Pico

Dominion / Carl Phillips

Raise her dark matter / Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Sunday morning / Ariana Brown

DataLounge - gay celebrity gossip, gay politics, gay news and pointless bitchery since 1995 / Meredith Talusan

Ride the turtle's back / Beth Brand

When Lillian posts pictures of food on Facebook, I tell her she makes me hungry / Ka'imilani Leota-Sellers

American wedding / Essex Hemphill

Untitled (for Andrea Smith) / Demian Dinéyazhi'

10 truths and a lie /

Irene Villaseñor

The cure for what ails you / Cameron Awkward-Rich

I never wanted to speak / Eduardo Martinez-Leyva

Things that stink / Monica Hand

I have a time machine / Brenda Shaughnessy

Open letter to Ian Birk, Seattle police office who shot John T. Williams on August 20, 2010 / Qwo-Li Driskell

Warning / Langston Hughes

A boy with baleen for teeth / Rajiv Mohabir

Untitled (Destroying Flesh) / Juliana Huxtable

Black Sonnet /

Candace Williams

Wet dream / Allyson Ang

Erasure of girlhood / Sarah Maria Medina

She calls once that is a lie / Rosebud Ben-Oni

Elegy for the living and breathing / Xandria Phillips

Paisahood / Oswaldo Vargas

The body in August / Robin Coste Lewis

Maskot #1: "They sure do love them some black pain." / Phillip B. Williams

Ghazal after Quebec City / Madiha Khan

Excerpt from Inheritance / George Abraham

Abuela dice que spilled salt goes over the shoulder / Julian Randall

My first memory (of librarians) / Nikki Giovanni

When a nigga calls you a faggot / Jayy Dodd

The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window / Joy Harjo

Chelsea piers /

Joseph O. Legaspi

transcript of an MTA audition / t'ai freedom ford

2012 / Francisco Aragón

if my slumlord allowed pets / Amber Atiya

Pluto shits on the universe / Fatimah Asghar

to whom it may concern: / Joy KMT

Litanies to my heavenly brown body / Mark Arguhar

I-797C Notice of Action / Jan-Henry Gray

Catching copper / Natalie Diaz

Ha ha ha niggers are the worst / Samiya Bashir

Excerpt from Discipline / Dawn Lundy Martin

Ode to unsavory lesbians / tatiana de la tierra

I dream of horses eating cops / Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

thirst / Franny Choi

The clouds can't hold shit / Aziza Barnes

Self portrait / Erika L. Sánchez

Constellated / Myriam Gurba

Lick my butt / Justin Chin

Boy with thorn / Rickey Laurentiis

Killing Mark / Richard Blanco

in the cut / Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Tyler, Texas / Cedar Siga

You! Inez! / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To a straight man / Eduardo C. Corral

Diva doll / JP Howard

suicide note #1 / Luther Hughes

Survivor 2014 / Pamela Sneed

Wright Park / Rick Marot

Consulting the bones / Muriel Leung

Heavy / Hieu Minh Nguyen

The lost woods as elegy for black childhood / Derrick Austin

Self-portrait as a door / Donika Kelly

Last words of the honey bees / Jess X. Snow

hyena (an absolution chant for the beloved community) / Akilah Oliver

To the American Psychiatric Association - 1973 / Jewelle Gomez

VII / Francisco X. Alarcón ; translated by Francisco Aragón

The language of dust / Assotto Saint

Kindertotenlieder / Reginald Shepherd

Heartbeats / Melvin Dixon

Excerpt from A song of someplace yet to fall / Ryka Aoki

His last stand / Kazim Ali

Boy in a stolen evening gown / Saeed Jones

Each time I did something bad / Ren Hang ; translated by Ho King Man and Casey Robbins

ambition / Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Watching a woman on the M101 Express / Kamilah Aisha Moon

The bordercrosser's pillow / Rigoberto González

Step father / Emanuel Xavier

At L'Express French bistro my white father kisses my black mother then calls the waiter a nigger / Charif Shanahan

Some like Indians endure / Paula Gunn Allen

Cattails / Nikky Finney

I have a rendezvous with life / Countee Cullen

Fuck U's / Kokumo

The tattooed man / Robert Hayden

El beso / Angelina Weld Grimké

Summer of 1973 / Cheryl Clarke

Excerpt from Last four months / Ser Serpas

Untitled / James Baldwin.