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As if some little Arctic flower
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and ...
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A Cry from an Indian Wife
A Cry from an Indian Wife” originally appeared in Emily Pauline Johnson’s first volume of poetry, The White Wampum, which was published in 1895 in Boston, London, and Toronto by Lamson, Wolffe and ...
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The Home of the Sacred
Ofelia Zepeda, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of southwestern Arizona, was born in Arizona in 1952. She received a BA, ...
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Delayza’s Necklace
Delayza puts her hand in mine. The seated crowd hinders her view. I lift her above the masses— a butterfly beyond reach. Her irises bloom to the choir and drumbeats rumbling nearby snowflakes. I set ...