Details

Subject(s)

• Minority lesbians—Poetry [Browse]
• Minority gays—Poetry [Browse]
• American poetry—Minority authors [Browse]
• Sexual minorities' writings, American [Browse]

Editor

• Soto, Christopher, 1991- [Browse]

Book producer

• Lambda Literary Foundation [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Notes

"This publication was produced in conjunction with Lambda Literary."--title page verso.

Contents

• 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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Other title(s)

• Queer poets of color
• Nepantla (Lambda Literary Foundation).

ISBN

• 9781937658786 ((paperback))
• 1937658783 ((paperback))

OCLC

1008775259

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