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Lineages & Legacies

Poems, essays, and events that engage with works or people in conversation with the poet. This includes poems about family, poems “after” other poets, works that pull lines from other sources, and land acknowledgments.

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    Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home

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    Poetry and portraiture provide a rare view into contemporary Mexican American women’s equestrian performance in this exhibition.
    Portrait of a woman with a gray hat, wearing a blue dress, both with flowers, appears against a yellow background.
  • Poem

    p1Orange Tree

    By Janiru Liyanage
    Our neighbor’s orange tree is in full bloom fat and overgrown and spilling
    sun-bright fists over our…
  • Poem

    p1the women in my family

    By Fatimah Asghar
    their names have been lost
    only the winds & only the mountains

    keep them. we’ve forgotten the names
    of …
  • Poem

    p1Prestige

    By Zoe Dorado
    All the second-gen immigrant Berkeley moms somehow all
    went to Stanford. I’m laughing because
    I want to…
  • Poem

    p1母念 // 思母

    By Evan Wang
    I remember this clearly: 2 am bed sheets, rifted
    with confessions. Waves of linen—mother’s rifted

    ocean…
  • Poem

    p1Trot Song

    By Elise Paschen
    During the Grayhorse
    Dances in June,
    my mother side-stepped
    around the circle,
    echoing moves
    her grandmother…
  • Poem

    p1In the Surgical Ward

    By Carmen Calatayud
               my body at the water’s edge of opioid comfort
    under the brain’s night sky

               rounding the blue curve …
  • Article

    p1Firespitter: On Jayne Cortez

    By Sapphire

    For Cortez, poetry was not about mastery of form. Poetry in the mouth of the Firespitter was the creation of form.

    Jayne Cortez stands in the middle of other Black artists and writers, posing for the photo. Some look at the camera and others at each other. There is a table with cups slightly visible in the foreground and cracked door in the background.
  • Poem

    p1Collage for Romare Bearden

    By Jayne Cortez
    From white lightnin to
    bowed heads in red
    rooms of pregnancy
    under blackness
    spread out      closed in
    how do …
  • Events

    Forms & Features: Prose Poetry

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    A generative poetry workshop about the prose poem.
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