Poets of Color



Elmaz Abinader, Instructor Office: 313 Mills Hall
510 430 2225 elmaz@earthlink.net
office hours: 5-6:30 Thursday and by appointment

Here are the texts for the class.
• Asian American Poetry: the Next Generation edited by Victoria Chang
• Voices from Leimert Park, ed by Shonda, Buchannan
• Effigies, An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing Pacific Rim, 2009, Okpik, Rexford McDougall, etc (Salt Publishing)
• The Wind Shifts, New Latino Poetry, Edited by Francisco Aragón
• The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight
• Mercy by Lucille Clifton
• Zodiac of Echoes by Khaled Mattawa
• Diwata by Barbara Jane Reyes


Sunday, September 9, 2012

history and poetry

History grounds poetry for me. Alluding to a specific time or place roots my opinion of racism or feelings of birth and death. Visually stimulating me I walk next to the hospital bed where you're hemorrhaging and I read you differently after we have been intimate. I can say goodbye or scream to warn you. History opens the door for us to Center ourselves as readers. Althoughthepoetic form does notget lost history poetrydoes look different.
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