Nepantla: an anthology for queer poets of color

Introduction --

Don't let the fascists speak / Pat Parker --

once a marine biologist told me octopuses have three hearts / Denice Frohman --

I haven't had a Sazerac since Indiana / Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa --

Someday I'll love the ocean / Ocean Vuong --

Poem about police violence / June Jordan --

The [Black] outs : listen / Steffan Triplett --

Elegy with my mother's lipstick / Paul Tran --

Riot Act, April 29, 1992 / Ai --

Power / Audre Lorde --

Excerpt from Dream vision in blue and black / Ronaldo V. Wilson --

feeding my starving / Caleb Luna --

Quantitative reasoning / Chen Chen --

Layover / Jericho Brown --

Hurryer ___thruu [

- ...... ++++] /

Fatima Espiritu --

On grace / Danez Smith --

for stan / Adrian Stanford --

Cenzóntle / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo --

Actually, yes, everything is about race / Madison Johnson --

Preference / Albert Park --

On the plane, I get so much ass / Arisa White --

Excerpt from Food / Tommy Pico --

Dominion / Carl Phillips --

Raise her dark matter / Lillian-Yvonne Bertram --

Sunday morning / Ariana Brown --

DataLounge - gay celebrity gossip, gay politics, gay news and pointless bitchery since 1995 / Meredith Talusan --

Ride the turtle's back / Beth Brand --

When Lillian posts pictures of food on Facebook, I tell her she makes me hungry / Ka'imilani Leota-Sellers --

American wedding / Essex Hemphill --

Untitled (for Andrea Smith) / Demian Dinéyazhi'

10 truths and a lie /

Irene Villaseñor --

The cure for what ails you / Cameron Awkward-Rich --

I never wanted to speak / Eduardo Martinez-Leyva --

Things that stink / Monica Hand --

I have a time machine / Brenda Shaughnessy --

Open letter to Ian Birk, Seattle police office who shot John T. Williams on August 20, 2010 / Qwo-Li Driskell --

Warning / Langston Hughes --

A boy with baleen for teeth / Rajiv Mohabir --

Untitled (Destroying Flesh) / Juliana Huxtable

Black Sonnet /

Candace Williams --

Wet dream / Allyson Ang --

Erasure of girlhood / Sarah Maria Medina --

She calls once that is a lie / Rosebud Ben-Oni --

Elegy for the living and breathing / Xandria Phillips --

Paisahood / Oswaldo Vargas --

The body in August / Robin Coste Lewis --

Maskot #1: "They sure do love them some black pain." / Phillip B. Williams --

Ghazal after Quebec City / Madiha Khan --

Excerpt from Inheritance / George Abraham --

Abuela dice que spilled salt goes over the shoulder / Julian Randall --

My first memory (of librarians) / Nikki Giovanni --

When a nigga calls you a faggot / Jayy Dodd --

The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window / Joy Harjo

Chelsea piers /

Joseph O. Legaspi --

transcript of an MTA audition / t'ai freedom ford --

2012 / Francisco Aragón --

if my slumlord allowed pets / Amber Atiya --

Pluto shits on the universe / Fatimah Asghar --

to whom it may concern: / Joy KMT --

Litanies to my heavenly brown body / Mark Arguhar --

I-797C Notice of Action / Jan-Henry Gray --

Catching copper / Natalie Diaz --

Ha ha ha niggers are the worst / Samiya Bashir --

Excerpt from Discipline / Dawn Lundy Martin --

Ode to unsavory lesbians / tatiana de la tierra --

I dream of horses eating cops / Joshua Jennifer Espinoza --

thirst / Franny Choi --

The clouds can't hold shit / Aziza Barnes --

Self portrait / Erika L. Sánchez --

Constellated / Myriam Gurba --

Lick my butt / Justin Chin --

Boy with thorn / Rickey Laurentiis --

Killing Mark / Richard Blanco --

in the cut / Julian Talamantez Brolaski --

Tyler, Texas / Cedar Siga --

You! Inez! / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson --

To a straight man / Eduardo C. Corral --

Diva doll / JP Howard --

suicide note #1 / Luther Hughes --

Survivor 2014 / Pamela Sneed --

Wright Park / Rick Marot --

Consulting the bones / Muriel Leung --

Heavy / Hieu Minh Nguyen --

The lost woods as elegy for black childhood / Derrick Austin --

Self-portrait as a door / Donika Kelly --

Last words of the honey bees / Jess X. Snow --

hyena (an absolution chant for the beloved community) / Akilah Oliver --

To the American Psychiatric Association - 1973 / Jewelle Gomez --

VII / Francisco X. Alarcón ; translated by Francisco Aragón --

The language of dust / Assotto Saint --

Kindertotenlieder / Reginald Shepherd --

Heartbeats / Melvin Dixon --

Excerpt from A song of someplace yet to fall / Ryka Aoki --

His last stand / Kazim Ali --

Boy in a stolen evening gown / Saeed Jones --

Each time I did something bad / Ren Hang ; translated by Ho King Man and Casey Robbins --

ambition / Rachel Eliza Griffiths --

Watching a woman on the M101 Express / Kamilah Aisha Moon --

The bordercrosser's pillow / Rigoberto González --

Step father / Emanuel Xavier --

At L'Express French bistro my white father kisses my black mother then calls the waiter a nigger / Charif Shanahan --

Some like Indians endure / Paula Gunn Allen --

Cattails / Nikky Finney --

I have a rendezvous with life / Countee Cullen --

Fuck U's / Kokumo --

The tattooed man / Robert Hayden --

El beso / Angelina Weld Grimké --

Summer of 1973 / Cheryl Clarke --

Excerpt from Last four months / Ser Serpas --

Untitled / James Baldwin.