Ocean Vuong | "Kissing in Vietnamese"

Francisco X. Alarcón | "In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles" and "L.A. Prayer"

Clint Smith III | "what is left"

Gloria Anzaldúa | “To Live in the Borderlands”

sam sax | “First Will and Testament”

Kimii Nagata | “Be Like the Cactus”

Franny Choi | "Choi Jeong Min"

Tanya Ko Hong | "Second Period"

Lawson Fusao Inada | “Healing Gila”

Toyo Suyemoto | "Barracks Home"

Garrett Hongo | excerpt from “Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi”

Layli Long Soldier | “Resolution (6)”

Alice Walker | “How Poems are Made / A Discredited View”

Claude MaKay | “I Know My Soul”

Fatimah Asghar | “If They Come for Us”

Carolyn Forché | “The Boatman”

Joy Harjo | "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

Lateef McLeod | "I Am Too Pretty For Some Ugly Laws"

W.E.B. Du Bois | "The Song of the Smoke"

Paige Lewis | "The Moment I Saw a Pelican Devour"