In a powerful performance called "Come Home" at a Button Poetry Live event, Kevin Yang chose the latter three. He is tired of Americans questioning his heritage or connection to the United States ...

and I know that when I go back home, everything will still be there. And I can take a deep breath and smell that thick air, and remember what it was like to be a kid, ...

I hope my poetry takes Jamaicans everywhere back home.” Her new collection of poems, Native Dawta (Kingston Publishers, $8.95), is dedicated to “all Jamaicans, scattered abroad.” ...

Marshall reaches back to scenes from Bishop’s earliest days, starting with the very first words on her life: her birth on Feb. 8, 1911 in Worcester, as recorded in a red baby book.

Abduqadir Jalalidin’s poem “No Road Back Home,” translated by Joshua Freeman, produced by Teklimakan, and recited by ethnomusicologist, filmmaker and dancer Mukaddas Mijit.