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Whale on the Line by Nuala Archer

Nuala Archer | Whale on the Line | The body is a central trope in Archer’s work. Fearlessly, she explores the sense of exile that results from physical trauma. For example, in “The Devi

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From a Mobile Home by Nuala Archer

Nuala Archer | From a Mobile Home | “In From a Mobile Home, Nuala Archer is migrant, immigrant, wanderer poet. In these poems, we move between Oklahoma, Ireland, Swilly and Sewanee, Muns

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Two Women, Two Shores by Medbh McGuckian; Nuala Archer

Medbh McGuckian; Nuala Archer | Two Women, Two Shores | The publication of Two Women, Two Shores in 1989 made explicit Archer’s continued connection to Ireland and broadened her themes by including poems se

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Pan/Ama by Nuala Archer

Nuala Archer | Pan/Ama | A visualized strangeness … the body of a poet and the body of an elsewhere, a series of ruptures on the geo-political map … I can think of few poe

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Pet Sounds by Stephanie Young

Stephanie Young | Pet Sounds | A book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precarity, and kinship Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, Stephanie Young

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Poetry

& more black by t’ai freedom ford

t’ai freedom ford | & more black | Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women’s Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. t’ai freedom ford’s second collection of poems, & MORE BLACK, is direct,

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how to get over by t’ai freedom ford

t’ai freedom ford | how to get over | An astonishing debut, how to get over is part instruction manual, part prayer, part testimony. It attempts to solve the reader’s problems (by telling

Posted in Native/Indigenous Interest Poetry

The Blind Lion by Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen | The Blind Lion | From The Blind Lion: ‘… You came to me / the breath of winter in your hair / and off me the tears of the blind lion / as the meaning of your solitude’

Posted in Black Interest Poetry

dayliGht by Marsh Roya

Marsh Roya | dayliGht | A necessary new voice explores sexuality, grief, and the resilience of the Black woman in an unconventional yet highly accessible debut poetry collect

Posted in Asian Interest Poetry

The Things I Never Told You by Chea Villanueva

Chea Villanueva | The Things I Never Told You | We are unable to provide a description at this time.