Theme
Lineages & Legacies
Poems, essays, and events that engage with works or people in conversation with the poet. This includes poems about family, poems “after” other poets, works that pull lines from other sources, and land acknowledgments.
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- Events-Poetry FoundationA discussion and generative workshop exploring the exhibition Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home for adults ages 65+
- PoemBy Paul TranMixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
A stranger… - PoemBy Joshua BennettThe money of the mind is attention, maybe.
Which is not, initially, where I thought I’d begin,
but we… - PoemBy Joshua BennettFor the sake of argument, let’s say
the day my father outlawed all contact
between backhand and face, … - Events-Poetry FoundationAprende a escribir un auténtico corrido mexicano en este taller gratuito en español con Juan Díes
- Events-In PersonJoin us for a multidisciplinary celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Allen!
- EventsIn PersonPoetry and portraiture provide a rare view into contemporary Mexican American women’s equestrian performance.
- PoemBy Angelina SáenzIf you are going to wear this dress
you have to respect the rules
Yes, they are conservative and strict… - PoemBy Shara McCallumAt this point, I don’t know what in me is Jamaican
versus American. Or, reaching further back,
Trinidadian… - PoemBy ire’ne lara silvawe didn’t have time for ribbons or petticoats or
high-necked dresses no time for sidesaddles or
single… - PoemBy Angelina SáenzThere is a framed photograph of my grandmother
She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china… - Events-Poetry FoundationA discussion and creative writing workshop on our literary forebears.
- Events-In PersonJoin a live taping of VS in Los Angeles during AWP.
- Events-VirtualA discussion of the eaters of flowers by ire’ne lara silva.
- PoemBy Kinsale DrakeIn the years of scorched earth,
Kit Carson’s pale-knife face
bayonetting the sky, his blood thirst,
… - PoemBy Nia FranciscoNiha hastsoí, nihidzanii
‘álastsii’ nihich’į’ dah deidiijaa’
bílák’ee naazhjaa’go
nihich’į’ dah deidiijaa… - PoemBy Zoey YazzieI come from ablazea female mountain boulders scorchedcradled—in—betweenbeat—strainedbeet—stained…
- PoemBy Hershman JohnWill Power. It is the deepest purple like huckleberries gnashed between bear teeth. The bears have been…