Humility, sincerity, banana oil / Louise Erdrich. About more than a single story / Carolyn Holbrook -- Pandemic love / Ed Bok Lee - Juice / Alexs Pate -- George Floyd was killed in my neighborhood / Safy-Hallan Farah -- Queer death in exile / Ahmad Qais Munhazim -- With birthday girl blindfolded, Star Pì¨ata considers his regrets and offers a last request / Michael Torres -- Battlegrounds and building grounds / Kao Kalia Yang -- Summer 1964 / Pamela R. Fletcher Bush -- The courage to hold together, the courage to fall apart / Mona Susan Power -- Long live the fatherless children / Anika Fajardo -- Land acknowledgment statement of a native Virginian / Mary Moore Easter -- Financial trauma / Tess Montgomery -- Cross pollination / Kathryn Haddad -- Breath: a meditation in uprising / Erin Sharkey -- Dear editor / Douglas Kearney -- What does it all mean / Tish Jones -- The trauma virus / Resmaa Menakem -- How will they take us away ; how will we stand / Bao Phi -- Healers are protectors ; protectors are healers / Marcie Rendon -- The Pachuco himself considers the audacity of language / Michael Torres -- Little brown briefcase / Suleiman Adan -- We are all summoned / Diane Wilson -- A tangent to a story about the Smith & Wesson .38, or, attempts to be fully assimilated into the White American Project have failed miserably, in the form of a self-questionnaire / Sun Yung Shin -- Today in Minneapolis / Samantha Sencer-Mura -- Let me tell you a story / Melissa Olson -- Here before / Sherrie Fernandez-Williams -- Truth, reconciliation, and four more meditations on human freedom / Arleta Little -- Didion dreams / Said Shaiye -- Speaking into existence / Kevin Yang -- The weight / Ezekiel Joubert -- Four genies / Ricardo Levins Morales -- All the stars aflame / Shannon Gibney -- Humility, sincerity, banana oil / Louise Erdrich.
Summary:
"A gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.