Poems

Dancework: A Valentine

February 9, 2012

by Louise Mathias

In the ocean of our bed(s) I am suddenly right.
All our mouths, (all of us), stuffed with lace. …

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Two Rooms

On February 2, 2012

by JP Reese

Jigsaw men smoke behind cinder block walls,
assemble the pieces of people they’ve been.
Second-hand voices seep under the door
of the coffee-cup room severing “Al” from “Anon”
—Pain extended from pain embraced. …

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The Nests in Winter

On January 26, 2012

by Jeff Oaks

Of course the point is to be hidden, isn’t it?
To seem like nothing, to be forgettable,
to hold still. Lonely little things now,
the size of my fist and with a lid of snow. …

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In the Face, Hard

On January 19, 2012

by Charles Harper Webb

A child kneels beside a “dead” bee.
(Stinging black-and-gold soldier,
where’s your buzzing bluster now?)
Jab!—boxing glove in the face, hard. …

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Credo

On January 12, 2012

by Kevin Hearle

      in memory of Kevin Calegari, who died of
        AIDS on February 12, 1995 in San Francisco

       Romanum Pontificem in rebus fidei
        et morum definiendis errare non posse

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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