March 2021

Guest edited by Margarita Engle, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Jacqueline Woodson; cover art by Colin Laurel

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Kara Jackson
Luis Salgado
Suma Subramaniam
Mariana Llanos
Tanaya Winder

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Weight

Poem

Every day as a wide field, every page

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One of Us

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Jacqueline Woodson
- Weight
Naomi Shihab Nye
- Every day as a wide field, every page
Joyce Sidman
- One of Us
Luis Daniel Salgado
- Mi Casa
Cedar Sigo
- What did you learn here? (Old Man House)
Tanaya Winder
- And I wonder where you are
- Being
- Uncharted Territory of Grief
Cornelius Eady
- “I am here because somebody survived”
- The Racist Bone
Heid E. Erdrich
- How It Escaped Our Attention
Suma Subramaniam
- A smile always heals
- Filter
Marilyn Nelson
- The Floatin Baby
Ari Tison
- The Storyteller Gets Her Name
Mahogany L. Browne
- The Ache
- This Is the Honey
Mariana Llanos
- Invisible Children
- The Line of Fire
- War
Kim Stafford
- At the Student Poetry Reading
- Equinox: Greta in Poland
- Before the Rains Had Come
Nathalie Handal
- Phenomenal Daughter
- Love Letter
- Others Are Us
Nour Al Ghraowi
- Truth is I would like to escape myself
Pat Mora
- My Rock
- The Only Me
Chera Hammons
- Clarinet
Mosab Abu Toha
- my grandfather and home
- Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
Chen Chen
- Summer
- The School of the Unschoolable
Kara Jackson
- the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love
- anthem for my belly after eating too much
- tribute for when i’m quiet
Nikki Grimes
- The Last Word
- Stomp
- Poems
Kimberly Blaeser
- About Standing (in Kinship)
Dawn Quigley
- Blue Earth Banks
- Ode to Langston
Renée Watson
- This Body II
Elizabeth Acevedo
- A Daughter Named After Nina
- Manhunt or Ode to First Kisses
Tina Boyer Brown
- Respectability
- School—12:15
Michael Simms
- The Summer You Learned to Swim
- Who Will Tell Them?
Linda Sue Park
- Red-Crowned Crane
- Nowhere Else to Go
Padma Venkatraman
- Undone
- Whenever you see a tree
Margarita Engle
- The Care and Feeding of Poetry