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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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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineA Force of Nature

    By Paul Tran
    Mixed greens. Purple onions. Banana
    Peppers. Tomatoes. Avocados. Mayonnaise. Pepper. Sourdough.
    A stranger…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWe

    By Joshua Bennett
    The money of  the mind is attention, maybe.
    Which is not, initially, where I thought I’d begin,
    but we…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazinePhysical Education

    By Joshua Bennett
    For the sake of argument, let’s say
    the day my father outlawed all contact
    between backhand and face, …
  • Events

    Annie Allen: By Any Art Necessary

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    In PersonmapMarker
    Join us for a multidisciplinary celebration of the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Allen!
    Illustration of a window overlooking the Chicago Skyline with text that reads "Annie Allen: By Any Art Necessary" and "75th Anniversary"
  • Events

    Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home (Remix)

    In PersonmapMarker
    Poetry and portraiture provide a rare view into contemporary Mexican American women’s equestrian performance. 
    On the left, an overlapping image of women in identical blue dresses with red trim. One women adjusts the others garments. On the right, a triptych of photographs including, left to right, a woman in white on horseback, three seated women, two in dark green dresses, one in a tan dress, and three seated women, all in red dresses.
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineSelf-Portrait

    By Shara McCallum
    At this point, I don’t know what in me is Jamaican
    versus American. Or, reaching further back,
    Trinidadian…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineDress pet peeves

    By Angelina Sáenz
    If you are going to wear this dress 
    you have to respect the rules

    Yes, they are conservative and strict…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFour generations

    By Angelina Sáenz
    There is a framed photograph of my grandmother
    She is a young woman, sitting on a horse, vestida de china…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine‘Álastsii’ Dah Deidiijaa’

    By Nia Francisco
    Niha hastsoí, nihidzanii
    ‘álastsii’   nihich’į’ dah deidiijaa’
    bílák’ee naazhjaa’go
    nihich’į’   dah deidiijaa…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineGreen Beans in a Can, Low Sodium

    By Hershman John
    Will Power. It is the deepest purple like huckleberries gnashed between bear teeth. The bears have been…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineResilience

    By Danielle Manygoats
    Brown, I want you Brown,
    Brown roots, Brown trees.
    Family lineage ripens into clans
    And sheep graze …
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