Writers from Diverse Cultures

AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS

All of the writers are contemporary. This is just a few of the many AFRICAN AMERICAN authors.
Suggested Assignment:
  1. Place students in groups to analyze the poem.
  2. Find an interview of the writer or critique of their work.
  3. Analyze what the poem is saying and put it in context. Discuss the meaning of the poem and how it relates to the information on the current state of indigenous people. 
  4. If the work is a novel or short story students can pull an excerpt from the work.
Nina's Blues
Hip Hop Ghazal
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Sci-fi
The Beauty Shell
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The Golden Shovel
Meditation at Decatur Square
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what if
Poems for My Father

ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER WRITERS

 All of the writers are contemporary. Here are just a few of the many ASIAN AMERICAN authors.
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Suggested Assignment:
  1. Place students in groups to analyze the poem.
  2. Find an interview of the writer or critique of their work.
  3. Analyze what the poem is saying and put it in context. Discuss the meaning of the poem and how it relates to the information on the current state of indigenous people. 
  4. If the work is a novel or short story students can pull an excerpt from the work.

POETS

In the Hospital
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
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Choi Jeong Min
We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had
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Scars
What Remains Two
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A Little Closer to the Edge

NOVELISTS

INDIGENOUS WRITERS

All of the writers are contemporary. Here are just a few of the many INDIGENOUS authors.
Suggested Assignment:
  1. Place students in groups to analyze the poem.
  2. Find an interview of the writer or critique of their work.
  3. Analyze what the poem is saying and put it in context. Discuss the meaning of the poem and how it relates to the information on the current state of indigenous people. 
  4. If the work is a novel or short story students can pull an excerpt from the work.
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation
The Facts of Art

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Captivity
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
The Night Watchman (a Pulitzer Prize winning novel)
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Invisible Fish
Once the world was perfect
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There There 
​(excerpt from his novel)
Click on the title for poems and a lesson plan posted on PBS

JEWISH WRITERS

All of the writers are contemporary. Here are just a few of the many JEWISH authors.
Suggested Assignment:
  1. Place students in groups to analyze the poem.
  2. Find an interview of the writer or critique of their work.
  3. Analyze what the poem is saying and put it in context. Discuss the meaning of the poem and how it relates to the information on the current state of indigenous people. 
  4. If the work is a novel or short story students can pull an excerpt from the work.
Kamenetz
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Twelve
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from From "Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter"

LATINX WRITERS

All of the writers are contemporary. Here are just a few of the many LATINX authors.
Suggested Assignment:
  1. Place students in groups to analyze the poem.
  2. Find an interview of the writer or critique of their work.
  3. Analyze what the poem is saying and put it in context. Discuss the meaning of the poem and how it relates to the information on the current state of indigenous people. 
  4. If the work is a novel or short story students can pull an excerpt from the work.
Ode to the Head Nod
Manhunt or Ode to First Kisses
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​La Bestia or The Beast
Gatekeepers
A Point West of Mount San Bernardino 
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Almost Livin' Almost Dyin'
Borderbus
War Voyeurs
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How to Triumph Like a Girl
The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual

LGBTQ+ WRITERS

All of the writers are contemporary. This is just a few of the many LGBTQ+ authors.
Suggested Assignment:
  1. Place students in groups to analyze the poem.
  2. Find an interview of the writer or critique of their work.
  3. Analyze what the poem is saying and put it in context. Discuss the meaning of the poem and how it relates to the information on the current state of indigenous people. 
  4. If the work is a novel or short story students can pull an excerpt from the work.
Langston Blue
Duplex
A Litany for Survival
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Queer Appalachia
Your Voice
Asleep You Become a Continent
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if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then
C.R.E.A.M.
juxtaposing the black boy and the bullet
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MIDDLE EASTERN WRITERS

All of the writers are contemporary. This is just a few of the many MIDDLE EASTERN authors.
Suggested Assignment:
  1. Place students in groups to analyze the poem.
  2. Find an interview of the writer or critique of their work.
  3. Analyze what the poem is saying and put it in context. Discuss the meaning of the poem and how it relates to the information on the current state of indigenous people. 
  4. If the work is a novel or short story students can pull an excerpt from the work.
Knocks on the Door
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My Grandmother Washer Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears
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Fundamentalism
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Calm Day

SPECIAL NEEDS WRITERS

All of the writers are contemporary. This is just a few of the many SPECIAL NEEDS authors.
Suggested Assignment:
  1. Place students in groups to analyze the poem.
  2. Find an interview of the writer or critique of their work.
  3. Analyze what the poem is saying and put it in context. Discuss the meaning of the poem and how it relates to the information on the current state of indigenous people. 
  4. If the work is a novel or short story students can pull an excerpt from the work.
The Red Shoes
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The Diagnosis
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Disability and Poetry
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