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, November 25, 2012

Performance Info

Poem #1: Etheridge Knight's "Belly Song"
Poem #2: Poem from Seurat's Points series, "Breaking Point"
Artist Bio: Always near abstraction and obscurity. 
Potluck: Bringing a cake!!!

Poem #2 for zine:


Breaking Point

Further loss to change
No longer viewed a problem
People, it doesn’t make sense

On a drug
That may not happen –if at all

Created awareness specialist
On it from the beginning, no one challenged them

New concerns, long-term safety
The current looking with critical eye
Method used been called into question

How and how?
Is it, even?

The years keep evolving
Once diagnosed
A fragility fracture

A meeting of experts
Defined by density
One measure available

“Normal” were those of a deviated standard
Anyone who fell in between had a condition

A disease somewhat arbitrary
An independent prevention

Density helped her avoid
Density is only one part of the picture
Determined by other components, its capacity for self-repair

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