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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1977: POEM FOR MRS. FANNIE LOU HAMER, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You used to say, “june?
Last Line: In a homemade field / of love
Subject(s): Hamer, Fannie Lou (1917-1977); United States - Race Relations


A NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck / at the gold head of my grandchild
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; United States - Race Relations


A POEM ABOUT INTELLIGENCE FOR MY BROTHERS & SISTERS, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A few years back and they told me black
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


A STORY ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
Last Line: But to live in the tragic world forever.
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War


AMERICA, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: America, you ode for reality
Last Line: Us, and nowhere but you to be
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


AN AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am inside someone / who hates me
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish
Last Line: To survive?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians;


APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today is your / birthday and I have tried
Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


BLACK HAIR, by GARY SOTO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At eight I was brilliant with my body
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; United States - Race Relations


BLACKBOTTOM: 1945, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When relatives came from out of town
Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


BLOOD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A true arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands'
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: In the school auditorium / the theodore roosevelt statue
Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Latinos; Students


BUSTED BOY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Social Commentaries; United States - Race Relations; Police


COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 1, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I discovered the evidence
Last Line: He forgave me all my sins
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 2, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little big horn / little big horn does not belong to me
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 4, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are places I cannot leave
Last Line: The exact skin/ never the same home
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief); Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 5, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the mirror
Last Line: It is the sound / of glass shattering
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 6, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the verdict
Last Line: Mortal and sinless
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 7, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever it all begins again
Last Line: I will be waiting
Subject(s): Etethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


DEAR JOHN WAYNE, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: August and the drive-in picture is packed
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents
Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life


DUST WORLD: 1, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whirlwinds of hot autumn dust
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


DUST WORLD: 2, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With pupil-dilated putti in arms
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


ELENA, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My spanish isn't enough
Last Line: When my children need my help
Subject(s): Chicanos; Children; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


FROM AN ISLAND YOU CANNOT NAME, by MARTIN ESPADA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Thirty years ago, / your linen-gowned father stood
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos


FUNK LORE, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the blues
Last Line: We is ouselves / the blues
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


GROTESQUE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: With the first light on the skyline came the rapping of the sickles
Last Line: "and the fields with harvest teeming have forgot them all too soon!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fields; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Serfs


HANGING FIRE, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am fourteen / and my skin has betrayed me
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Teenagers; United States - Race Relations


HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian


HOW I GOT THAT NAME, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am marilyn mei ling chin
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was in an empty lot
Subject(s): Baseball; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; United States - Race Relations


I ASK MY MOTHER TO SING, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She begins, and my grandmother joins her
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Heritage; Heredity


I GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I release you, my beautiful and terrible
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Peace; United States - Race Relations


I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were snakes in the tent
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Shoah; Judaism


IMMIGRANTS, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrap their babies in the american flag
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are born with dreams in our hearts
Last Line: So long gone from life itself, so many things have changed
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Social Problems; United States - Race Relations


IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students


INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Students


KA 'BA, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A closed window looks down
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks


LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY FATHER AND THE FIGTREE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For other fruits my father was indifferent
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


MY PEOPLE ARE THE COLOR OF THE EARTH, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You cannot leave / my aunt's house
Last Line: Offended.
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


NIKKI-ROSA, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Childhood remembrances are always a drag / if you're black
Last Line: All the while I was quite happy
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Variant Title(s): Nikki-roasa
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Women


ON THE BIRTH OF BOMANI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have taken the best leaves
Last Line: Art that made you fill your heart
Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Cultural Differences; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks


POEM ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me something
Last Line: You think the accident rate would lower subsequently
Subject(s): United States - Race Relations; Racism; African Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Negroes; American Blacks


POEM FOR THE YOUNG WHITE MAN WHO ASKED ME HOW I, AN INTELLIGENT ..., by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my land there are no distinctions
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


POWWOW POLAROID, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were fancydancing, you see
Last Line: My uncle held his great belly in his hands, walked amoung the fancy dancers / forgiveness
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If he could have kept
Last Line: What did you do to my father?
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers & Daughters; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


SO MEXICANS ARE TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O yes? Do they come on horses
Last Line: And the children too
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brothers,/this big woman
Last Line: If you do not?
Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Spiritual Life; United States - Race Relations; Women & Religion


SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones
Last Line: I'm just going to school.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts;


THE AMERICAN BLACK (A STUDY IN RACE CONSCIOUSNESS), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night! Night! / and of the dawn no promise. Wrong is right
Last Line: And dream of freedom that is not a name.
Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Pain; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Suffering; Misery; Serfs


THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; United States - Race Relations; Agriculture; Farmers


THE GIFT, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To pull the metal splinter from my palm
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Men; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE HOUSE ON MOSCOW STREET, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's the ragged source of memory
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Family Life; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Relatives


THE HULA SKIRT, 1959, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my fourth birthday my father
Last Line: That much I remember
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE LAST WOLF, by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last wolf hurried toward me
Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 1, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I saw black men
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 2, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our streets filled
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 3, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the world
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 4, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black men
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE MEN: 5, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The young men
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The floorboards creak
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians


THE REGENT'S EXAMINATION, by JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Muffled sounds of the city climbing to me at the window
Last Line: Neuter and safe shall it be? Or a flame to burst us asunder?
Subject(s): Examinations; Immigrants; Racism; United States - Race Relations; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians;


THE WHITE WITCH, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!
Last Line: And in her smile there is a blight.
Subject(s): Miscegenation; United States - Race Relations


THE WOMAN HANGING FROM THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR WINDOW, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Gays & Lesbians; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


TO JESUS VILLANUEVA, WITH LOVE, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first vivid memory of you
Last Line: Enough.
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


TO THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: United states, your banner wears
Last Line: They mean your negroes' scars.
Subject(s): Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Serfs


TRANSLATED FROM THE AMERICAN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After all the drive-in theaters have closed
Last Line: I'll give them exa t directions
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations


WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward
Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts


WINGFOOT LAKE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On her 36th birthday, thomas had shown her
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Swimming & Swimmers; United States - Race Relations


YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the black trunk I shake out
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts