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3. Read "Nikki-Rosa" by Nikki Giovanni (click on her name at the left). What is "Black wealth"?

1. Read "The Concrete River" by Luis J. Rodriguez. What do you think the concrete river is?
2. Read "Poem for July 4, 1994" by Sonia Sanchez. When must we "finally bury...elitism"?
4. Read "I Said To Poetry" by Alice Walker (scroll down to it). Why does she say to Poetry "I'm finished with you"?
7. Read "High Treason" by Jose Emilio Pacheco. If he doesn't love his country, why would he "give his life" for certain people and things there?
5. Read "At the Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School" by Sherman Alexie. Who plays against whom in the "eternal football game"? Look at a picture of the poet.
There are poems in every language! We will look at some that were written in English, but still represent a variety of cultures.
6. Read "the great american yellow poem" by Frances Chung (click on the title at the right). Every line of this poem names something that is yellow or uses a word that means "yellow." Why?