Read the beginning of Gina Athena Ulysse’s memoir, “The Spirits in My Mother’s Head” • Remica L. Bingham’s poem, “Things I Carried Coming Into the World”
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- Remica L. Bingham
- Interview with Natasha Trethewey
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poemmemoirstory
- Lucille Clifton
- alabama
- Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
- Mrs. Tell’s Daughters (Gelatin silver print, ca 1910-1916, Herbert Collins)
- Remica L. Bingham
- Things I Carried Coming Into the World
- Cleaning House
- Allison Joseph
- Multitudes
- Kelly Norman Ellis
- Dying
- Opal Moore
- From Children of the Middle Passage V. The Children
- Ye of Ejisu [Ewe, Ghana]
- Yona Harvey
- Theory of the Unheld
- Ocean Song
- DeLana Dameron
- How Quickly the Sun Comes
- Meta DuEwa Jones
- Come On In My Kitchen, Bessie
- Kelly Harris
- No Detour
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Poised
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Remembering Esopus
- Who Won’t Inherit
- Evie Shockley
- to see the minus
- Cherise A. Pollard
- Returns
- Child, Leaving
- Camille Dungy
- Poor Translation
- Lynne Thompson
- Veal
- The Vandyck
- Nehassaiu deGannes
- Ocean Voyager
- One Fine Philadelphia Morning
- Latasha N. Nevada Diggs
- about her
- Khadijah Queen
- November, 1941
- Shannon Gibney
- Note on a Number
- Raina J. León
- Philomela Teaches a Child to Sew
- Nikky Finney
- Segregation, forever
- Natasha Marin
- Morphos
- Larva
- Matilda Cox
- the prophet of the laundromat
- Patricia Spears Jones
- Randy Crawford sings “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”
- Last Seen Wearing (Sylvia Plath)
- The Talk-Show Producer Keeps Calling (Sylvia Plath)
- Tara Betts
- Erasure
- Patricia Smith
- AN ALL-PURPOSE PRODUCT
- Rachel Eliza Griffiths
- Grief Requiem
- Pecola Breedlove Gives Geraldine a Piece of Her Mind
- Duriel E. Harris
- “The difference between dream and reality”
- Tracy K. Smith
- Erotics
- Physics
- Asha French
- Why You Won’t Stop
- Amber Flora Thomas
- Swarm
- Dear Reader
- Nikki Giovanni
- No Heaven
- Edwidge Danticat
- postscript
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poemmemoirstory
- Heidi W. Durrow
- Dear Ms. Larsen, There’s a Mirror Looking Back
- Edwidge Danticat
- Uncle Moïse
- Gina Athena Ulysse
- The Spirits in My Mother’s Head
- Trellie James Jeffers
- From the Old Slave Shack
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poemmemoirstory
- Ada Udechukwu
- Empty Vessel
- Tayari Jones
- Some Thing Blue
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- Easter Lilies in the West Room
- Deesha Philyaw
- Bomani Jones
- Jacinda Townsend
- Saint Monkey