Lee’s speaker recalls a gift his father gave him when he was a young boy, an act of love and care—a gift that the speaker passes forward in his adult life. 

"Busted Boy" is a powerful poem by Native American poet Simon Ortiz that vividly depicts a scene of racial profiling and systemic injustice. The poem describes the arrest of a young Black teenager at a bus station, observed by the narrator, who is implied to be Native American. 

Strong narrative poem that connects a past memory and a current experience through their similarities, then ends with an insightful epiphany. 

The speaker recalls a high school experience in her history class, a powerful moment about the complicity of silence. 

Kaye describes the summer he spent working in his grandfather’s army surplus store and how that experience helped him find his voice as a writer.