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Grinderman

By Jose Padua Jose Padua performs the poem "Grinderman" at the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival.

Take a Giant Step

By Jose Padua All the out of business auto body shops
on this slow highway, all the abandoned
buildings with peeling paint, the vacant

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A Portrait of America in Trash

By Jose Padua I give to you a portrait of America in trash.
I give it to you with love and respect, America:
mountains of beer cans crumpled, plastic figures

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There Is Only One World, This One

by: S. J. Ghaus

Sometimes I want us to horse / through the world like it’s on fire, / yelling and singing

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New Exile Poems

by: Tuhin Das

he asks whether I could not / sleep last night because of thoughts of homeland

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Silhouette

by: Ladan Osman

their faces so hard to read / when they make odd-placed sighs / at Black people histories

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Just Is - Where There Are Black People in the Future

by: Jaden Fields

Until the moon loses their footing in the sky / Which is to say - never

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Anthropocene Pastoral

by: Subhaga Crystal Bacon

This is the anti-garden. It tends itself.

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