To be an Asian body in America is to belong nowhere. And what people cannot hold, they push.

of his dormitory to watch the bombs fall on the American naval base built over Puʻuloa Your brother your sister and four of her children were killed, too You were ...

by John Denver, who my immigrant father first heard in China in 1979, Denver’s twang blaring across campus, in the halls, on the streets, ringing through every child’s freedom dream— so almost-heaven ...

“This poem emerges from the mythical-scale experience of birthing my child. Aside from a literal brush with death, there’s the figurative: the old self giving way to the new one, which is now ...

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember’d for a very long time. But ...

A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening ...

William Shakespeare, regarded as the foremost dramatist of his time, wrote more than thirty plays and more than one hundred sonnets, all written in the form of three quatrains and a couplet that is ...

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox ...

There is of course the other idea: that the intricate latticework Of our bodies loosed from us at last will leave us free To become anything, pure light, perhaps, or wing-beats In fresh powder beneath ...

Anne Bradstreet wrote in the Elizabethan literary tradition and became one of the first poets to write English verse in the American colonies.

A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in ...

A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in ...