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Baptism
for my father’s church my mother dresses my sister
and me in orange burned
one hundred times over prays
in Arabic rhythmic applies a steroid cream
to my
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Oil has seeped into
the margins of the ditch of standing water
and flashes or looks upward brokenly,
like bits of mirror—no, more blue than that:
like tatters of the Morpho butterfly.
—Elizabeth Bishop
How young were my boys …
Read MoreIt was a shock to hear of Franklin Odo’s death in September 2022. I’d not known he’d been ill with cancer, so, when the news reached me in Oregon, where I teach, it was sudden. He was kupuna to me, …
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There’s no light like Cape Cod light. People come from everywhere to paint by it. My mother told me this. It was 2015, and she’d just moved there, about an hour and a half from where I grew up in …
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23 February 1996
Outside in the night, a full moon is shining, and in the moon glow, a mockingbird is singing the cadences of all the birdsong it has ever heard. It imitates the raucous jayjay of the blue …
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Interview
An Education in Georgia, Then and Now: A Conversation with Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Calvin Trillin (moderated by Valerie Boyd, with an introduction by Lisa Bayer)
INTRODUCTION
In January 1961 Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes walked through the Arch, the iconic cast iron entryway to the University of Georgia campus, to enroll in classes, thus ending (per court order) 176 years of whites-only education at the …
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My madrina and I right away got a truckload of watermelons from a neighboring rancho, to keep us hydrated for the two months we’d be working. We—me being a twelve-year-old boy but strong like a freaking tiger homie, she …
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Special Feature
Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees Stay Unchanged, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles
The new year slowly rolled around.
I stayed in Japan until the New Year. Dad’s helpers took three days of vacation for the holiday.
My husband returned to California. I flew back to Kumamoto with my youngest daughter, Aiko. Tons …
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As an expression of local, state, and regional inequities, environmental racism is a feedback loop of enhanced health risks, restricted job opportunities, diminished educational success, and negative social relations for certain populations due to zoning policies, industrial interests, and business/governmental …
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