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”

Remica L. Bingham

Interview with Natasha Trethewey

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

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

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