Excerpt from “My Mother’s Eyes,” copyright © 2020 by Marjorie Agosin. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Excerpt from “Ghazal,” from Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali. Copyright © 2002 by Agha Shahid Ali. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
“Future,” copyright © 2020 by Karen Amundson. Published by permission of the author.
Excerpt from “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward,” copyright © 1991 by Gwendolyn Brooks Blakely, first appeared in Blacks. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions.
Excerpt from “When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities,” copyright © 2017 by Chen Chen, first appeared in When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC., on behalf of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org.
“the making of poems” copyright © 1980 by Lucille Clifton. Originally published by University of Massachusetts Press. Currently published in The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (BOA Editions). Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Excerpt from “since feeling is first.” Copyright 1926, 1954, © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1985 by George James Firmage, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
“Yasmeen,” copyright © 2018 by Safia Elhillo, first appeared in Poetry magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Excerpt from “Turtle Came to See Me,” from Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle. Copyright © 2015 by Margarita Engle. Reprinted with the permission of Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from “Fortune Has Its Cookies to Give Out” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from A Coney Island of the Mind, copyright © 1958 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Day by Day,” copyright © 2020 by Saroj Groebler. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Excerpt from “On the Fifth Day,” copyright © 2020 by Jane Hirshfield, first appeared in Ledger (Knopf, 2020). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Excerpt from “Last Night I Was Sleeping,” by Antonio Machado, translated by Robert Bly, first appeared in Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Wesleyan University Press, 1983), copyright © Antonio Machado, translation © 1983 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of the translator.
Excerpt by Bernadette Mayer, from Midwinter Day, copyright © 1982 by Bernadette Mayer. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from “Love in the Ruins,” copyright © 2014 by Jim Moore, first appeared in Underground: New and Selected Poems. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC., on behalf of Graywolf Press., www.graywolfpress.org.
“These Are the Hands That Could Sand a Wooden Bench,” copyright © 2020 by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. Published by permission of the author.
“A Strange Beautiful Woman,” copyright © 1997 by Marilyn Nelson, first appeared in The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC., on behalf of Louisiana State University Press., www.lsupress.org.
Excerpt from Late and Posthumous Poems, copyright © 1988 by Fundación Pablo Neruda, translation copyright © 1988 by Ben Belitt. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.
Excerpt from “Animals” from The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara by Frank O’Hara, copyright © 1971 by Maureen Granville-Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank O’Hara, copyright renewed 1999 by Maureen O’Hara Granville-Smith and Donald Allen. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from “Sweet Like a Crow” from The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje, copyright © 1989 by Michael Ondaatje. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from “Brotherhood”’ by Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger, from The Collected Poems 1957–1987, copyright © 1986 by Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“That’s My Heart Right There” from The Crazy Bunch by Willie Perdomo, copyright © 2019 by Willie Perdomo. Used by permission of Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“In A Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound, from Personae, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpts from “My Papa’s Waltz” copyright 1942 by Hearst Magazines, Inc., copyright © 1966 and renewed 1994 by Beatrice Lushington; from Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Quatrain 1797,” by Rumi, translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks, first appeared in Open Secret: Versions of Rumi (Shambhala Publications, 1999) and (Threshold Books, 1984), translation © 1984 by John Moyne and Coleman Barks. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC., on behalf of Shambhala Publications, Inc., www.shambhala.com.
“Blues Haiku” from Like the Singing Coming off the Drums by Sonia Sanchez. Copyright © 1998 by Sonia Sanchez. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.
Excerpt from “The Twenty-Third of January,” copyright © 2015 by Amanda Torroni, first appeared in Poetic Conversations. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Excerpt from “You Meet Someone and Later You Meet Their Dancing and Have to Start Again,” copyright © 2018 by David Welch, first appeared in Quarterly West magazine. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Excerpt from “When I Was Five,” copyright © 2005 by Gary Young, first appeared in No Other Life. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Excerpt from “Handkerchief,” by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Fady Joudah, first appeared in Granta and The Silence That Remains: Selected Poems 1982-2003 (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), copyright © 2017 by Ghassan Zaqtan and Fady Joudah. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press., www.coppercanyonpress.org.