Poems about our blood relatives and our chosen family.
Dove, Rita. Playlist for the Apocalypse. New York: Norton, 2021.
From an unpublished manuscript titled Fire: Poems Against Pandemic.
Uncollected.
Differs slightly from published version.
Ríos, Alberto. The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2002.
Differs from published version.
Wunderlich, Mark. "My Local Dead." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 28 March 2022. Web. Accessed 6 December 2024.
CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.
Unpublished.
Differs slightly from published version.
Som, Brandon. Tripas. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2023.
Limón, Ada. The Hurting Kind. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2022.
Differs slightly from published version.
Hayes, Terrance. "South Carolinian American Sonnet for Independence Day." The New Yorker, vol. 101, no. 18, 30 June 2025, p. 28
Uncollected.
Lee, Li-Young. The City In Which I Love You. Brockport: BOA Editions, 1990.
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2008.
Zepeda, Ofelia. Where Clouds Are Formed. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2008.
Harjo, Joy. How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems. New York: Norton, 2002.
Vuong, Ocean. Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2016.
Sung by Toi Derricotte. Unpublished.
