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Nepantla: an anthology for queer poets of color
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
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From the Book
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.
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