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Subject: ETHNIC GROUPS - UNITED STATES Matches Found: 387 14TH STREET WAS GUTTED IN 1968, by CHERYL CLARKE Poem Source Last Line: For themselves %endangered %or extinct Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; New York City; U.s. - Race Relations 6TH GRADE - OUR LADY OF POMPEII, by VITTORIA REPETTO Poem Source Last Line: Mia noma e vittoria %2 t's - no c Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations A NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text 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 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'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 AFTER THE ANTI-SEMITIC CALLS ON A LOCAL TALK STATION, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to check Last Line: Panes of crystal %was starting %to crack Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AFTER THE FUUNERAL OF ASSAM HAMADY, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: Cast: %haji abbass habhab: my grandfather Last Line: As if the pain behind my eyes %could be absolution Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am inside someone %who hates me Last Line: Inside it. And that thing %screams Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ALBERT JAMES, by REUBEN M. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Albert james was black long before me Last Line: And extolled the benefits of fire. %I saw the flophouse where you %od'ed %likewise turn to ghost Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ALL I WANT, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: All I want is the bread to turn out like hers just once Last Line: On windy, woodchopping afternoons Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations; Women ALWAYS RUNNING, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: All night vigil Last Line: When all was gone, %the concrete river %was always there %and me, always running Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMAZONE, by MARY JO BONA Poem Source First Line: Blond-haired, green-eyed, italian girl Last Line: For the opera, singing italian arias along %the way Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICA, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text 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 AMERICA, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source 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; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN DREAM: FIRST REPORT, by JOSEPH PAPALEO Poem Source First Line: First nobody liked us; they said we smelled Last Line: (who liked to spit on the floors while he talked Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN SON, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ten Last Line: What good %is a son %in america Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Japanese Americans - Internment; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY FATHER: 1, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: You died in spring, father, and now the autumn dies Last Line: To smell the still living vapor of your sweat Variant Title(s): American Sonnets For My Fathe Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY FATHER: 2, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: You worked too hard, an oldest child of too many Last Line: If your dreams are mine, live again, breath in me and be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY FATHER: 3, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: You never understood america's scheme Last Line: To carry us full grown Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AN AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text 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 AN ANTHEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our vision is our voice Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO Poem Text 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; ANTHEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our vision is our voice Last Line: It over my face and mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Text 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 APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today is your %birthday and I have tried Last Line: And not be ashamed Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ARMITAGE STREET, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Waiting for the elevated train Last Line: It seems just like yesterday %on armitage street Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ARTURO, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: I told everyone Last Line: Do not call me marie Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations AT THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER, by MIGUEL ALGARIN Poem Source First Line: I search the chemistry of specific emotions Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AT THE NUCLEAR RALLY, by LAURA BOSS Poem Source First Line: Thinking of my father Last Line: Next to me tonight Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ROBERT VISCUSI Poem Source First Line: In my house we had an elephant named italy Last Line: And are always putting in another sidewalk Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BARRIO BEATEO, by JESSE F. GARCIA Poem Source First Line: Woke up to one of those cold Last Line: Thanks murray, babe %I love you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BATTLE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: My daughter came home from school one day Last Line: As if it were the last enemy's retreat Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BECAUSE OF MY FATHER'S JOB, by JAMES MASAO MITSUI Poem Source First Line: Spring hailstones would drive us Last Line: Embarrassed the moon with his curses & songs Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BEHAVING LIKE A JEW, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I got there the dead opossum looked like Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BEHAVING LIKE A JEW, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I got there the dead opossum looked like Last Line: From his round belly and his curved fingers %and his black whiskers and his little dancing feet Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BEHIND GRANDMA'S HOUSE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At ten I wanted fame. I had a comb Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BEING JEWISH IN A SMALL TOWN, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone writes kike on Last Line: That pulls you toward %honey in the snow Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BIG CHILL VARIATIONS, by REUBEN M. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: He gives me a handshake Last Line: His treat - %paid with an american express card. %gold, %but with black trim Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BIRDFOOT'S GRAMPA, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: The old man %must have stopped our car Last Line: They have places to go to too Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK AND WHITE, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Why is it in my middle-aged dream Last Line: That her caring can be cleansed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK AND WHITE GALAXIE, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With water warm enough to make me Last Line: A black man gotta have a private world Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK HAIR, by GARY SOTO Poem Text 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 BLACK HAIR, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At eight I was brilliant with my body Last Line: To the arms of brown people Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK MAN'S SONATA, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in west philadelphia Last Line: Our deep black stripes in a fire yellow Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLACKBOTTOM: 1945, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text 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 BLACKBOTTOM: 1945, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When relatives came from out of town Last Line: Whose very existence %tore us down to the human Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLIND SOLO, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young poet comes to me Last Line: But I was beautiful, wasn't I Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLONDE WHITE WOMEN, by PATRICIA M. SMITH Poem Source First Line: They choke cities like snowstorms Last Line: Demanding that I explain %my treachery Subject(s): Blondes; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLOOD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text 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 BLOOD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A true arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands' Last Line: Where can the crying heart graze? %what does a true arab do now? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BRAIN ON ICE, by MICHAEL WARR Poem Source First Line: There's a seat right next to me Last Line: In which we all %are hourly enslaved Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BRALY STREET, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every summer %the asphalt softens Last Line: Would equal, if alive Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BRIDES COME TO YUBA CITY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is hot and yellow, filled Last Line: We cannot recognize a single face Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BUCKET, by ROSE ROMANO Poem Source First Line: Why is it I can't sleep tonight Last Line: Something is rising in me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium %the theodore roosevelt statue Last Line: Across the victorian mustache %and monocle Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations BULOSAN LISTENS TO A RECORDING OF ROBERT JOHNSON, by ALFRED ENCARNACION Poem Source First Line: You sing a hard blues Last Line: Our names so different, %our songs the same Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BUT MY BLOOD, by ROSE ROMANO Poem Source First Line: I'm beginning to talk to myself Last Line: American as anyone. But my blood %will not change Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CAN'T TELL, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: When world war ii was declared Last Line: We wore black arm bands, %put up a sign %in bold letters Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations; Women CANDY LADY, by LAURA BOSS Poem Source First Line: Aunt lily stood %behind her candy counter Last Line: And he told me her stone was glass Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH: 1, by KIMBERLY M. BLAESER Poem Source First Line: Shuffling papers %rushing to find some critical Last Line: You won't imprint me again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH: 2, by KIMBERLY M. BLAESER Poem Source First Line: Or perhaps it was your capture Last Line: Mother, american indian. %daughter, mixedblood Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CHANGING ADDRESS BOOKS, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: This is a project as overwrought Last Line: Who were loved, who are missed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CINCINNATI, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom at last %in this town aimless Last Line: Everyone knew me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Japanese Americans - Internment; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico Last Line: Sagged heavy with milk, swollen %and unsuckled Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; U.s. - Race Relations COMING OF AGE, by MICHAEL PALMA Poem Source First Line: I was sitting on the roof with my grandmother Last Line: I grunted spontaneously in time with the hand Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CORTEZ'S HORSE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Return, sweet horse, rise Last Line: Carry me into the stars Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE MONUMENT, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: Hailstones falling like sharp blue sky chips Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 1, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text 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: 1, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I discovered the evidence Last Line: He forgave all my sins Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 2, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text 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: 2, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little big horn %little big horn does not belong to me Last Line: Survive - survive - survive Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 3, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wear the color of my skin Last Line: In this city where everyone / is afraid of horses? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Horses; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 3, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wear the color of my skin Last Line: In this city where everyone is %afraid-of-horses Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 4, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text 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: 4, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are places I cannot leave Last Line: Never the same house Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 5, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text 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: 5, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source 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; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 6, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text 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: 6, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the verdict Last Line: Close to their chests %mortal and sinless Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 7, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text 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) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 7, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever it all begins again Last Line: I will be waiting Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CULTURES, by GLORIA EVANGELINA ANZALDUA Poem Source First Line: Go out take the pick axe Last Line: Thistle sage and nettle Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DADDY POEM, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: My father is a handsome guy Last Line: You're good looking %for a colored man Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DANCING, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture Last Line: From the other dancing - in poland and germany - %of god of mercy, oh wild god Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 DEAR JOHN WAYNE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: August and the drive-in picture is packed Last Line: Those cells, burning, doubling, splitting out of their skins Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DEER CLOUD, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: The mohawk lover who told her he stripped all his clothes Last Line: On tranquilizers, and doesn't mention it Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA Poem Text 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 DIGGING IN THE STREETS OF GOLD, by BARRY SEILER Poem Source First Line: My parents were fish Last Line: And went to dig in the streets of gold Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DOREEN, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doreen had a round face Last Line: Because %no one could remember %doreen's face Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DREAM POEM, by MARY JO BONA Poem Source First Line: I miss my grandmother Last Line: Her eyes are older than mine Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DREAMS IN HARRISON RAILROAD PARK, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: We sit on a green bench in harrison railroad park Last Line: And I dream %of embroidering %new skin Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 1, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI 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: 1, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whirlwinds of hot autumn dust Last Line: For my people dying Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 2, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poet's Biography First Line: With pupil-dilated putti in arms Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 2, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With pupil-dilated putti in arms Last Line: This is the whiskey talking now Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DYING WITH THE WRONG NAME, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: These men died with the wrong names Last Line: In this house, in these people, in this moment Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELECTION TIME, by LAMONT B. STEPTOE Poem Source First Line: Names will change Last Line: Ain't nothin' changed at all Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY FOR CHLOE NGUYEN, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe's father is a professor of linguistics Last Line: Chloe, we are finally americans now. Chloe, we are here Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY: 1. WINEMAKING, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Eyes shining like wetted sapphires Last Line: In their redman's 'freedom, friendship, charity' %salud Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY: 2. IN THE GARDEN, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: He journeyed past liberty and the island Last Line: In the garden green I followed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY: 3. LAMBENT SUNDAYS, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Wineglass at hand Last Line: He dealt the cards %so I won Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY: 4. LAST DAY, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Gentle man, groaning, from the dying bed Last Line: Your shining eyes closed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Last Line: A soil that sprouts nothing %for any of us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; U.s. - Race Relations ELENA, by PAT MORA Poem Text 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 ELENA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My spanish isn't enough Last Line: For if I stop trying, I will be deaf %when my children need my help Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 1, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: The train whistles punctual as a clock Last Line: Pushing to be first, not miss a thing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 2, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: In the museum, a sign tells of the catalogue Last Line: Sympathetic looks - difficult to understand Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 3, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: At the crematorium, caretakers brush Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 4, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: Later, I travel backward on an air-conditioned Last Line: By the bombs on hiroshima, negasaki Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 5, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: I wake to watch the sun rise silent and red Last Line: What we should do and what to declare when we land Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ESPRESSO, by CAROL LEE SAFFIOTI Poem Source First Line: Lemon rind rubbed on the rim Last Line: Elegant in its graceful arc %burns my hand Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FAILURE OF AN INVENTION, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: I am not any of the faces Last Line: I've never been able to bear Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FATHER FROM ASIA, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Father, you turn your hands toward me Last Line: And asia is dust, is dust Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FATHER OF MY FATHER: 1, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The way the incense gripped Last Line: Of incense to the bowl Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FATHER OF MY FATHER: 2, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Incense. Sucking the wind from him Last Line: Surrounding the pagoda of san jose Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FATHER OF MY FATHER: 3, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Have you ever seen Last Line: Nothing could stop me now Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FILIPINO BOOGIE, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under a ceiling high christmas tree Last Line: The yellow peril %bombs %pearl harbor Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FIRE: 1, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: It seems our days are shaped by conflagration Last Line: Forever traced in mind Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FIRE: 2, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: In chicago, latino neighborhoods Last Line: The squeeze of skin, this memory %called our history Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FIRST, by GRACE CAVALIERI Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Conti was the first Last Line: She didn't have to fill her time on thursdays Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FLORAL APRON, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The woman wore a floral apron around her neck Last Line: How to honor the village, the tribe, %that floral apron Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FOR GRANDMA LUCIA LA ROSA, LIGHT THE ROSE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: On the crowded subway, %riding to the prison to teach Last Line: From giving and giving and giving %food and birth Variant Title(s): Bicentennial Anti-poem For Italian-american Wome Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FOR MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER: A MESSAGE LONG OVERDUE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You with the beard as red as barbarossa's Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FOR TALKING, by DENISE NICO LETO Poem Source First Line: In catholic school %they teach you Last Line: For talking %sometimes %takes years Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FOR THE COLOR OF MY MOTHER, by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: At two %my upper lip split open Last Line: They cradle her silence %nodding to me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FOREIGN WAYS, by DIANA CHANG Poem Source First Line: If I were in china this minute Last Line: My lope with its prairie air Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Fresno, california's eighth largest city, is the financial headquarters Last Line: Watered by want, the spirit thrives Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; California; Ethnic Groups - United States FRIENDLY TOWN #1, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: It was august, I was inner city Last Line: Their teeth chasing our bus Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FRIENDLY TOWN #3, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: For thirteen days %she had threatened Last Line: New, dark, empty space %slowly Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FROM A HEART OF RICE STRAW, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Ma, my heart must be made of rice straw Last Line: Ma, hear me now, tell me your story %again and again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 FROM AN ISLAND YOU CANNOT NAME, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago, %your linen-gowned father stood Last Line: That you're other, %that you're not Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FROM OKRA TO GREENS, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I haveta turn my television down sometimes cuz Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Variant Title(s): From Okra To Greens - A Different Love Poem Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FROM OKRA TO GREENS, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I haveta turn my television down sometimes cuz Last Line: & sure can dream gd/soppin up the pot liquor %& them peppers Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Variant Title(s): From Okra To Greens - A Different Love Poe Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FUNK LORE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text 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 FUNK LORE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are the blues Last Line: We is ourselves %the blues Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GIFT, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To pull the metal splinter from my palm Last Line: When he's given something to keep. %I kissed my father Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Men; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GOING HOME, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Ngoh m' sick song tong hwa Last Line: But chinamen aren't supposed to cry Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Language; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GRANDFATHER AT THE INDIAN HEALTH CLINIC, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: It's cold at last and cautious winds creep Last Line: To everyone who comes Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations GRANDMA IN THE SHOWER, by DALE KUSHNER Poem Source First Line: Puckered breasts like leiberman's Last Line: Grandma's moustache. Grandma's teeth in the glass Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GRANDMOTHER, by GRACE CAVALIERI Poem Source First Line: What is the purpose of visits to me twice since you've died Last Line: A bright clock shaped like a train - %simply that it moves Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GRANDMOTHER, A CARIBBEAN INDIAN, DESCRIBED BY MY FATHER, by YVONNE SAPIA Poem Source First Line: Nearly a hundred when she died Last Line: There would be room for me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GROWING UP ITALIAN, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: When I was a little girl Last Line: Like a bright, red flag Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HACIENDO APENAS LA RECOLECCION, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks now Last Line: You shall not again %pick cotton Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HALF-BREED, by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: The difference between you and me Last Line: My reflection has always been %once removed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HAMMOCK, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: The tainos of the antilles Last Line: You can go right down %to the bone Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States HANGING FIRE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text 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 HANGING FIRE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am fourteen %and my skin has betrayed me Last Line: And momma's in the bedroom %with the door closed Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Teenagers; U.s. - Race Relations HAVING THE WRONG NAME FOR MR. WRIGHT, by HELEN BAROLINI Poem Source First Line: Pietrofesso,' I repeat to mr. Wright, the science teacher in junior high Last Line: No teacher ever corrected me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HEAVY BLUE VEINS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Heavy blue veins streaked across my mother's legs, some of them Last Line: Coming, never stops pouring, this memory of mama and blood and watts Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Last Line: Of never having a home Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations HOPE, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Edith b__ and her mother on a sunday afaaternoon. The Last Line: Voice, I hope I shall come to know you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HORSE, by GLORIA EVANGELINA ANZALDUA Poem Source First Line: Great horse running in the fields Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HOUSE ON MOSCOW STREET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the ragged source of memory Last Line: Generations lost to be found, %to be found Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Family Life; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HOW I CHANGED MY NAME, FELICE, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: In italy a man's name, here a woman's Last Line: And fanned my little neapolitan ass Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 GOT THAT NAME, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am marilyn mei ling chin Last Line: Mesmerized %by all that was lavished upon her %and all that was taken away! Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was in an empty lot Last Line: Hum baby' sweetly on my lips Subject(s): Baseball; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; U.s. - Race Relations HULA SKIRT, 1959, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Source 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; U.s. - Race Relations I AM SINGING NOW, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: The moon is a white sliver Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 ASK MY MOTHER TO SING, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She begins, and my grandmother joins her Last Line: Both women have begun to cry. %but neither stops her song Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I DEFY YOU WALLACE STEVENS, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source Last Line: The hungry and dead are this 'exquisity truth,' %and you an american fiction Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO Poem Text 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 GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I release you, my beautiful and terrible Last Line: I am alive and you are so afraid of dying Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Peace; U.s. - Race Relations I HAVE NOT SIGNED A TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: Nor has my father nor his father Last Line: Take these words back with you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were snakes in the tent Last Line: Appeared mysteriously, %tattooed on your arm Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I WALK IN THE HISTORY OF MY PEOPLE, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: There are women locked in my joints Last Line: How I am still walking Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IMITATION OF LIFE, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the movies were 35 Last Line: Pulsating fires in a fragile tapestry Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IMMIGRANTS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: To be always carrying Last Line: Where the grains of sand are stars Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Immigrants; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IMMIGRANTS, by PAT MORA Poem Text 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, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wrap their babies in the american flag Last Line: Our boy, our girl, our fine american %boy our fine american girl Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text 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 IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source 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; U.s. - Race Relations IMPROVISATION FOR PIANO, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freshly lit cigarette in his mouth Last Line: I slip away hoping there are angels Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IN MEMORY WE ARE WALKING, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source Last Line: We don't want your kind here Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Last Line: Des moines, I was saying to myself %baton rouge. Terre haute. Boise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE GOOD OLD U.S.A., by SR. JOSE ANGEL VILLALONGO Poem Source First Line: Here in the good old u.S.A. Last Line: My language %my brillo hair, %and my name Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE INNER CITY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Like we call it %home Subject(s): Cities; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE WAY BACK, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: The friday before labor day Last Line: Our parents left us free to look in both directions, %behind us and ahead Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations INDIAN BLOOD (2), by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird teacher / white claw waving Last Line: Indian blood Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Children; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations; 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 INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Last Line: Face before it hardened, pale, remembering %delicate old injuries, the spines of names and leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations INDIAN MOVIE, NEW JERSEY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the white filmstars, all rib Last Line: Sacrifice, success, love and luck, %the america that was supposed to be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JACKET NOTES, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Being a colored poet Last Line: You're bigger than the %barrel Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JADE, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a young hooker Last Line: Her dead eyes, glassy %as jewels Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JAZZ, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The music speaks for itself. And it certainly spoke to me. It called me Last Line: And before he knew it, he was writing poetry Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Ethnic Groups - United States; Jazz; Music And Musicians JEWISH SINGLES EVENT, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: Here are those who are challenged by Last Line: Their branded arms embrace us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JUNIOR HIGH DANCE, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one wanted to dance with us Last Line: Right there, no matter how funky %the beat, no matter how delicious Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations KA 'BA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text 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 KA 'BA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A closed window looks down Last Line: Return, destroy, and create. What will be %the sacred words Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations KATORI MARU, OCTOBER 1920, by JAMES MASAO MITSUI Poem Source First Line: Two weeks across a strange sea Last Line: On the gray sidewalks of america Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations KINGED, by SHALIN HAI-JEW Poem Source First Line: Crumpled like an embroidered pillowcase Last Line: Into her blood for it to be creeping %so slowly now. So red.Black Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LA MIGRA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's play la migra Last Line: You do not understand %get ready Subject(s): Chicanos; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LABYRINTH OF HEARING, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sound, no Last Line: The labyrinth of hearing Subject(s): Cuba; Ethnic Groups - United States; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LAKOTA SISTER/CHEROKEE MOTHER, by VICTORIA LENA MANYARROWS Poem Source First Line: We are both from the center of the continent Last Line: That no one could understand Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAMENTING THE INEVITABLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet's Biography First Line: The world dances with hate Last Line: Of the burning world Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAMENTING THE INEVITABLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world dances with hate Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LANGUAGE OF GREAT-AUNTS, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great-aunts have a corner, and wrinkled skin Last Line: Later we stay tight, and pull in mirrors at our strong skin Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAST WOLF, by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last wolf hurried toward me Last Line: I know what they have done Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAST WORD, by AMINA BARAKA Poem Source First Line: I'd rather my fist be made of steel Last Line: Be at least as mighty as the sword Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAUGHING GAS, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It was near the coliseum, rko Last Line: Laugh before breakfast, %cry before dinner Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LEAVES, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: Tonight, sally and I are making stuffed Last Line: Though it seems so late Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LEFT BANK JAZZ SOCIETY, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freddie hubbard's music Last Line: Black and black -sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Text 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 LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground Last Line: Said what they meant %and I guess nobody ever does Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LETTER TO A CRETAN FLUTE-MAKER, by JUSTIN VITIELLO Poem Source First Line: We have not forgotten you but here they have you pretend to work Last Line: There are no peasants here, but my son is learning how to swim and play the flute Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LIVING ALONE WITH JESUS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be %I am the only jew residing in danville, kentucky Last Line: Out of your damaged hands Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jews; Kentucky; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LOST NAME WOMAN, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Mississippi china woman Last Line: Who will feed you when you die Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MACARONI, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis made of the flour of wheat, so they say Last Line: And don't you forget the chianti! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; Italian Americans; New York City; Pasta; Restaurants; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Spaghetti; Lasagna; Noodles; Macaroni; Cafes; Diners MAFIOSO, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Frank costello eating spaghetti in a cell at san quentin Last Line: To grind the organs out of you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MALCOLM IS 'BOUT MORE THAN WEARING A CAP, by MICHAEL WARR Poem Source First Line: The problem is not the letter x Last Line: Only we can malcolm the x Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA, COME BACK, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source Last Line: As warmly as you hugged strangers Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 1. RICE CHILD, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: She is the lady %who microwaves tea Last Line: The last child to taste her rice candy Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 2. THE MARRIAGE, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: Her marriage was arranged Last Line: And demanded a new wife Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 3. FAMILY, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: She and her husband moved Last Line: Dropped in letters and flags Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 4. HER WISH, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: During the fifties Last Line: As she cried, 'I want to die Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 5. HER GIFT, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: In september %I became a woman Last Line: She is my obaachan Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MANE STORY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Straight hair, black hair, brown hair, coarse hair, horse hair Last Line: Over paper is the sound of seeds tumbling inside a dry gourd Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Native Americans - Women MARTIN AND MY FATHER, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Martin was too peaceful for me Last Line: That martin, %he was something else Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MARY MORELLE SHOW, by DENISE NICO LETO Poem Source First Line: My aunt maria %had a show Last Line: But did anyone %really know %her Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MATINEE, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Two o'clock on a saturday afternoon in november Last Line: And wounded bird. Pretend, pretend. You glitter as you fall Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 1, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw black men Last Line: Holding their own Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 2, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our streets filled Last Line: Headlines ourselves Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 3, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the world Last Line: We jab and swing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 4, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black men Last Line: Black hearts, black %hands Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 5, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The young men Last Line: Just big enough %for love Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MENTAL HORIZONS: 5. PROFESSOR WHITEPRIDE-RACE PREJUDICE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Anon approaches a critical sage Last Line: "whether jap or german, swede or kurd!" Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MISS CLEMENT'S SECOND GRADE, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: They sat in even rows Last Line: They didn't mind her italian name Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MNEMONIC, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was tired. So I lay down Last Line: Once, I was cold. So my father took off his blue sweater Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MODERN SECRETS, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Last night I dreamt in chinese Last Line: And hides still in the cupboard %with the china and tea-leaves Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MOVING, SELS., by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: So we move now Last Line: Grandfathers -- grandmothers -- fathers Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY FATHER AND THE FIGTREE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text 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 FATHER AND THE FIGTREE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For other fruits my father was indifferent Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY FIRST RIOT: BRONX, NYC, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: We are ten, two %boys and a girl Last Line: Not far enough away Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 MY RICH UNCLE, WHOM I ONLY MET THREE TIMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were never invited to his house Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jewish Families; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY RICH UNCLE, WHOM I ONLY MET THREE TIMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were never invited to his house Last Line: His last trick was to vanish himself forever Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jewish Families; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY RINGLESS FINGERS ON THE STEERING WHEEL TELL THE STORY, by LAURA BOSS Poem Source First Line: Never before without a ring Last Line: My fingers never looked so free Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NAAYAWVA TAAWI, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Left in the field Last Line: See, pahana, how we nest %in your ruins Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NAMING, by GIOVANNA (JANET) CAPONE Poem Source First Line: Meant my grandfathers dominic and donato Last Line: The more I insist %on possessing %entirely who I am Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NANI, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at her table, she serves Last Line: Even before I speak, she serves Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NATIVE PRIDE, by ALICIA SWIMMER Poem Source First Line: This is something on my mind Last Line: Or experience crazy horse's wrath Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Racism NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Last Line: And deer walking quietly on the soft red earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations NICE THING ABOUT COUNTING STARS, by DWIGHT OKITA Poem Source First Line: So my mother begins Last Line: And peg and I hugged it during stormy days Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NIGHT VISION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The girl fits her body in Last Line: To build something human with it. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Girls; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations NIKKI-ROSA, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Text 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 NORMA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As a teen-ager I was very shy. I always felt so conspicuous that it Last Line: Then I pulled myself up and turned away; never to agree again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck %at the gold head of my grandchild Last Line: The worst is true. %everything you did not want to know Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations NOTES FOR A POEM ON BEING ASIAN AMERICAN, by DWIGHT OKITA Poem Source First Line: As a child, I was a fussy eater Last Line: And says, 'can you really tell the difference between a chinese and a japanese Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations OLD BUILDINGS, by PEDRO PIETRI Poem Source First Line: (1422 amsterdam avenue) %everybody knew Last Line: That were not too expensive Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ON ALABAMA AVE., PATERSON, NJ, 1954, by RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Poem Source First Line: At seven I dreamed again and again Last Line: On a blue plate, where they clattered like dice Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS, MARYLAND, by ENID DAME Poem Source Last Line: Dreamily %making a list %of new names Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations OUT OF OUR HANDS, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a hat Last Line: The poem about being chinese, %skin the glorious color of chicken fat Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations OYE MUNDO/ - SOMETIMES, by JESUS PAPOLETO MELENDEZ Poem Source First Line: Sometimes ( %when the night air feels chevere Last Line: & I forget about the junkies %on the stoop Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PIGEONS, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Pigeons are the spiks of birdland Last Line: I tell you, %pigeons are the spiks of birdland Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PINON NUTS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: We begged him to teach us spanish Last Line: Like a sweet, round nut Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Prisons And Prisoners; U.s. - Race Relations; Women PITY THIS POOR ANIMAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And walks on grass %and has no need for fire Subject(s): African Americans; Ethnic Groups - United States POEM ABOUT INTELLIGENCE FOR MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A few years back and they told me black Last Line: I do guess %that's genius for you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations POEM FOR THE YOUNG WHITE MAN WHO ASKED ME HOW I, AN INTELLIGENT ..., by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Text 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 POEM FOR THE YOUNG WHITE MAN WHO ASKED ME HOW I, AN INTELLIGENT ..., by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my land there are no distinctions Last Line: But in this country %there is war Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations POET: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LUTHER?, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was strange weather, this luther, he read books, mainly poetry and Last Line: Do, writing books, she also said that he smiles a lot and kinda got good teeth Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PORTRAIT OF ASSIMILATION, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: My father sits quietly in his brown naugahyde chair watching Last Line: Gets kinda cold nowadays for me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations POWWOW POLAROID, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text 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 POWWOW POLAROID, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were fancydancing, you see Last Line: The fancydancers, said this: %forgiveness Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRAISE THE TORTILLA, PRAISE THE MENUDO, PRAISE THE CHORIZO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I praise the tortilla in honor of el panzon Last Line: Our chins and drips away Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRAYER, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Let my words Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PREPARATIONS FOR SEDER, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: Preparing schmaltz for matzoh balls Last Line: And eat and praise the taste of, wanting more Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRESENT, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This woman vomiting her Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRESENT, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This woman vomiting her Last Line: Making pilgimage to herself. Walking Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 18, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Miss wilson's eyes, opaque %as blue glass, fix on me Last Line: And my rage will blow %your house down Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; New Jersey; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations REAL INDIAN LEANS AGAINST, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: The pink neon lit window full of plaster of paris & resin Last Line: Somewhere %where nobody is sold Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations RECOGNIZED FUTURES, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ Poem Source First Line: Turning to you, my name Last Line: All our tongues can sing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations RESERVATION, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: You seldom talked about the indian side Last Line: Among spring beauties and curled adder's tongue Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations RESTROOM, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I push out of customs, stumble, almost fall, legs numb Last Line: Turn on the faucet. Water flows and flows over my hands, %warm and full of light, like a blessing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations RIB SANDWICH, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I wanted a rib sandwich Last Line: And didn't even %need a passport Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ROMAIOS, by WILLAM GAY BALLANTINE Poem Text First Line: Twas in the crowded avenue; o'erhead Last Line: To shine resplendent in thy future's crown! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Greek Language; New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.' Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants SALT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lisa, leona, loretta? %she's sipping a milkshake Last Line: In a wooden barrel Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text 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 SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source 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 And Daughters; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN, by JENNIFER LAGIER Poem Source First Line: We laughed %calling it'latent wop syndrome' Last Line: Waiting official permission %to be let off the boat Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SECRET LOVE, by MILTON KESSLER Poem Source First Line: My father's back %heaves toward the sea Last Line: They shook on it Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SEDER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: This is a strange seder Last Line: We keep on - we keep going on Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SEGREGATION, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: My mother, my two bothers, myself Last Line: We want only to disintegrate %into small pieces Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Prejudice; Social Problems SENORA X NO MORE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Straight as a nun I sit Last Line: I carve my crooked name, and again at night %until my hand and arm are sore, %I carve my crooked nam Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SHADES OF ORIGIN, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: I was born in a flimsy nest Last Line: Oppressed my childhood dreams with terror Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Ethnic Groups - United States; Peru SO I LOST MY TEMPER, by ROSE ROMANO Poem Source First Line: Another one was coming toward me Last Line: They lose their temper Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SO MEXICANS ARE TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text 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 SO MEXICANS ARE TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O yes? Do they come on horses Last Line: What they really say is, let them die, %and the children too Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN INDIAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: There's something about being an indian Last Line: A place we call the fire water world Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; San Francisco; U.s. - Race Relations SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text 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 SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers, / this big woman / carries much sweetness Last Line: If you do not? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Spiritual Life; United States - Race Relations; Women & Religion SONG NO. 3, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cain't nobody tell me any different Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Literary Form; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONG NO. 3, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cain't nobody tell me any different Last Line: Looka here, a pretty little black girl lookin' just like me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Literary Form; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONG OF THE THIRD GENERATION, by JULIA LISELLA Poem Source First Line: I learned to read in the dark Last Line: In the old way, which is any way that we can Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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; SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 1, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: We live amidst hills of desolate Last Line: To read on and on Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 2, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: The I.R.T. Is hot and humid Last Line: One of the victims too Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 3, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: We were all insane,the eternal Last Line: Or molested, the list %goes on Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 4, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: In our wagon, oysters are treasured, their Last Line: We wear them in our hair, and %in our eyes Variant Title(s): Amor Negr Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SPAIN AND AMERICA, by RICARDO CARRASQUILLA Poem Source First Line: Her race, her language, laws and creed Last Line: In her our needs are understood Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Freedom; Spain SPEAKING THROUGH WHITE: FOR MY MOTHER: 1, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: Twenty years ago today, your death changed Last Line: The world outside your window tilted Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SPEAKING THROUGH WHITE: FOR MY MOTHER: 2, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: After the morning of honeybell oranges Last Line: Snow like our words through silence Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations STARLIGHT HAVEN, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Susie wong was at the starlight haven Last Line: In white who laugh, quack, quack Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations STILL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And our points %sharpening good as anybody's Subject(s): African Americans - History; Ethnic Groups - United States STORY KEEPER, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stories %would be braided in my hair Last Line: Like sun-dried greasy %gambling bones Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUCH A BOAT OF LAND, by LAMONT B. STEPTOE Poem Source First Line: Against a backdrop of pennsylvania hills Last Line: Ebbing and flowing on the beaches of time %in this american land Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUSANS: 1, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: First day of kingergarten I slice my four-years' thumb Last Line: When the brown-eyed deer still came five feet close Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUSANS: 2, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: In kindergarten class there is a second susan, a susan of blond hair Last Line: Favored the blue-eyed girl who sang in tune Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUSANS: 3, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: My mother explains the second susan comes from a family Last Line: After a susan in a favorite poem, a wild girl who roamed outside among rain and flowers Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUSANS: 4, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: A grown woman sunning in solitude on a high hill, freckling Last Line: Patients lie dying in hospital rooms white as her skin Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SWEATERS, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: Used to be, fellows would ask if you were married Last Line: Have long since fallen to the moths of bitter days. & what %will I inherit to soften this hard skin, Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TAKING IT BACK, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Hand-tinted, creamy olive skin Last Line: [what] still splits off in the wind Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Prisons And Prisoners; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TATTOO, by GREGG SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: My father won't talk about the numbers Last Line: I would scrub the numbers from his arm, %extinguish the fire and give him back his life Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TEE, by REUBEN M. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: A bic lighter %cranked to the max Last Line: When the pusher comes Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations THAT GREAT WINGLESS BIRD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I was thrashing on the couch Last Line: Yes, hoping for beauty, %that great wingless bird Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; San Francisco; U.s. - Race Relations THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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 WOMAN HANGING FROM THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR WINDOW, by JOY HARJO Poem Text 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 THEY DIDN'T GET ME, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All on its own %and I'm amazed Variant Title(s): They Didn't Get M Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations THIRTY AND FIVE BOOKS, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Never having been here when the sun rose Last Line: All harmonics sound Subject(s): Aliens; Ethnic Groups - United States; Korea; Labor And Laborers; Navigation; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THREE GYPSIES, by SHALIN HAI-JEW Poem Source First Line: Blancing on oriental spike heels Last Line: He turns to watch this parade of gypsies Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TO H. N., by DAVID MURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is always easy to sentimentalize old lovers. They are distant Last Line: You're probably indifferent. Which is just as well Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TO HELL AND BACK, WITH CAKE, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: It was spring, saturday Last Line: But holding my breath Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 TODAY WAS A BAD DAY LIKE TB, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: Saw whites clap during a sacred dance Last Line: All that comes %is blood & spit Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TODAY WE WILL NOT BE INVISIBLE NOR SILENT, by VICTORIA LENA MANYARROWS Poem Source Last Line: And in all the earth and rivers of the americas Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRANSLATED FROM THE AMERICAN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text 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 TRANSLATED FROM THE AMERICAN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After all the drive-in theaters have closed Last Line: I'll give them exact directions Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 1. EAST TEXAS, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I left the alabama-coushatta people Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 1. EAST TEXAS, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I left the alabama-coushatta people Last Line: It would be the morning, the sun Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 2. THE CREEK NATION EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a story, I wrote that indians are everywhere Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 2. THE CREEK NATION EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a story, I wrote that indians are everywhere Last Line: No stopping except in case of emergency %and hugged a tree Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 3. CROSSING THE GEORGIA BORDER INTO FLORIDA, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I worried about my hair, kept my car locked Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 3. CROSSING THE GEORGIA BORDER INTO FLORIDA, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I worried about my hair, kept my car locked Last Line: And I didn't blame them Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Last Line: The left shoe %and the right one with its white foot Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TWO GRANDMAS, by STANLEY H. BARKAN Poem Source First Line: One grandma %I knew Last Line: Cooking, singing: %'alein, alein - %alles far miene kinder Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TYRONE (4), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We made it through the swamps Last Line: Tyrone %is Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; U.s. - Race Relations UNDRESSING AUNT FRIEDA, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Undressing aunt frieda, I think of how Last Line: I lift her gently, hoping she'll sleep %the hour drive home Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations UNTITLED BLUES, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I catch myself trying Last Line: Where your skin %is your passport Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations UPKEEP, by MIRIAM GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: My father died of a heart attack Last Line: Same as the day before Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations UPSIDE DOWN BASKET, by ALAN CHONG LAU Poem Source First Line: My grandmother %rakes up chicken shit Last Line: We drink gallons %of lemonade Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations VISION (2), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No money for lunch so I rode an elevator to the top of the onb Last Line: Voice or his song. %extras, we're all extras Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WALKING BY THE CLIFFSIDE DYEWORKS, by ROBERT CARNEVALE Poem Source First Line: Even the dark end of belmont avenue Last Line: To tell them it's ten after two Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - 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 WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward Last Line: Hide your daughters, lock your doors Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WE EXIST, by HELEN BAROLINI Poem Source First Line: Indians must be the loneliest people on earth Last Line: Which say we exist Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WE NEVER STOPPED CROSSING BORDERS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: We never stopped crossing borders. The rio grande (or rio Last Line: The refrain 'this is not your country' echoed for a lifetime Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WELCOME, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: When I was little and brown Last Line: Chicago wind %slapped my face Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A BLACK GIRL, by PATRICIA M. SMITH Poem Source First Line: First of all, it's being nine years old and Last Line: Were teaching me what it meant to be a black girl Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHAT THE GYPSY SAID TO HER CHILDREN, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: We are like the dead, %invisible to those Last Line: Out of the granite of their hatred, %with our own brown hands Variant Title(s): The Birthplace: What The Gypsy Said To Her Childre Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHAT WERE YOU PATCHING?, by RUTH LISA SCHECHTER Poem Source First Line: Needling %threading nighttime sewing machine Last Line: Ma/ma what were you patching Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHAT WOULD I DO WHITE?, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I would do nothing. %that would be enough Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHEN I FIRST SAW SNOW, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bing crosby was singing 'white christmas' Last Line: I was falling deeply into america Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: I know now that once I longed to be white Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER SAID 'PUSSY', by CAROLE BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: It was when we were living Last Line: Against all that was trying, and would try, %to claim my attention and consume me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHERE IS MY COUNTRY?, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source Last Line: Where is my country? %where does it lie Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHY I DON'T SPEAK ITALIAN, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: God knows, teaching the renaissance I could use it Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WINGFOOT LAKE, by RITA DOVE Poem Text 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 WINGFOOT LAKE, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On her 36th birthday, thomas had shown her Last Line: Under the company symbol, a white foot %sprouting two small wings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Swimming; U.s. - Race Relations WINNINGS, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's gardena, late saturday afternoon Last Line: In a brief symphony of candied light Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WIRED IN, by LAMONT B. STEPTOE Poem Source First Line: My entire life %has been spent Last Line: The nature of %captivity %or madness Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WOMAN HANGING FROM THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR WINDOW, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor Last Line: Window on the east side of chicago, or as she %climbs back up to claim herself again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Homosexuality; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WOMEN, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My cotton shirts float on the line Last Line: A childhood of breezes by the yard Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WOOLWORTHS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Went to woolworths Last Line: We ducked out of there %and fled on the first bus back to the indian school Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Native Americans - Children; Racism YAHRTZEIT LIGHT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusty, with some skeletons of Last Line: Mother's cheeks are caverns %no light fills Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations YOUTH, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: You say new york is lovelier than ever? Last Line: But, oh, how gay it was! What prophecies! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; New York City; Restaurants; Youth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Cafes; Diners 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 YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Last Line: From me, nail shut my lips. My son %will keep sitting in the last row %among the red words that drin Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations |
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