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Writers from Diverse Cultures



AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS

All of the writers are contemporary. This is just a few of the manyAFRICAN 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.

Cornelius Eady
Nina's Blues
Patricia Smith
Hip Hop Ghazal
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Tracy K. Smith
Sci-fi
Lynne Thompson
The Beauty Shell
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Terrence Hayes
The Golden Shovel
NATASHA TRETHEWAY
Meditation at Decatur Square
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Claudia Rankine
what if
Quincy Troupe
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

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

NOVELISTS

TED CHIANG
MIN JIN LEE
VIET THANH NGUYEN
AMY TAN


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.

Natalie Diaz
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation
The Facts of Art

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Louise Erdrich
Captivity
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
The Night Watchman (a Pulitzer Prize winning novel)
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Joy Harjo
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Invisible Fish
Once the world was perfect
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Tommy Orange
There There 
​(excerpt from his novel)


PBS: Exploring identity and INTERSECTIONALITY in poetry - Lesson Plan

Click on the title for poems and a lesson plan posted on PBS


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.

Elizabeth Acevedo
Ode to the Head Nod
Manhunt or Ode to First Kisses
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Juan Delgado
La Bestia or The Beast
Gatekeepers
A Point West of Mount San Bernardino 
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Juan Felipe Herrera
Almost Livin' Almost Dyin'
Borderbus
War Voyeurs
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Ada Limon
How to Triumph Like a Girl
The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual


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.

Poems of Jewish Faith and Culture
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RODGER KAMENETZ
Website
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Lynn Melnick
Twelve
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Elizabeth A.I. Powell
from From "Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter"


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.

JERICHO BROWN
Langston Blue
Duplex
AUDRE LORDE
A Litany for Survival
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RK Fauth
Queer Appalachia
Francisco Aragon
Your Voice
Asleep You Become a Continent
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Raquel Salas Rivera
if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then
DANEZ SMITH
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.

Maram Al-Masri
Knocks on the Door
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Mohja Kahf
My Grandmother Washer Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Fundamentalism
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Saadi Youssef
from America, America
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Ghassan Zaqtan
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.

Jennifer Bartlett
The Red Shoes
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