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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNITED STATES - RACE RELATIONS Matches Found: 74 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 |
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