CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cover: oil on canvas by Jewel Okamura, “Venice Pier, Sunset” p.vi Photo of Ruby Bridges, 1960, U.S. Marshals Service photo p. 2: Watercolor by Don Hata, “Last in Line” (detail)

  1. 5: Father Boyle in his office, photo by Daniel Ritkes
  2. 8: Photo of Dolores Mission, by Google
  3. 12: Photo of entrance to Homegirl Café, photo by Daniel Ritkes
  4. 16: “New York Street with Moon” Georgia O’Keeffe (1925) (detail)
  5. 18: Photo of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese, Bettmann Archive, NY Times
  6. 18: “Cincinnati, 1947,” prev. published in The Ogre’s Wife (2013) Red Hen Press
  7. 19: Mixed Media, by Jewel Okamura
  8. 19: “Parkview1-9426,” originally published in I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s

Boyfriend” (2022) Red Hen Press

  1. 20: “The Sun is Worried,” originally published in I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s

Boyfriend” (2022) Red Hen Press

  1. 21: Mixed Media, by Jewel Okamura
  2. 23: Photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto (1965), LBJ Presidential Library and Museum
  3. 26: Booking photo, Nashville Police Department
  4. 30: Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King with President Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
  5. 34: Civil Rights Movement Archives
  6. 36: Mixed media, by Jewel Okamura
  7. 37-40: Previously published in Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, a poetry collection

by James Cagney, Nomadic Press (2022)

  1. 41: Mixed media, by Jewel Okamura
  2. 42: Previously published in Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, a poetry collection by

James Cagney, Nomadic Press (2022)

  1. 43: “Rosa Centifolia,” Pierre Joseph Redoute
  2. 44: Mixed Media Jewel Okamura
  3. 49: AP photo of Carol Rogoff from NY Post (1963)
  4. 52: Photo of E.W.Steptoe, from We’ll Never Turn Back, 1963, Harvey Richards
  5. 63 Poster from the 1976 Report to the Illinois General Assembly by the Illinois Legislative Investigative Committee
  6. 76: Poster of Freedom Folk Festival, from collection of George Madaraz
  7. 77: Photo by Ricky Nelson
  8. 78: Mixed media by Jewel Okamura
  9. 79: “For the Sad Waitress at the Diner in Barstow,” originally published in the San

Pedro River Review and Enter Here (Moon Tide Press, Whittier, CA)

  1. 80: “Bambi Explains it All,” originally published in Carbon Culture Review and Enter

Here (Moon Tide Press, Whittier, CA)

  1. 81: Oil on canvas, by Jewel Okamura
  2. 82: “This small rain,” originally published in Erotic: New & Selected (2021), KYSO

Flash, and Get Lit-Words Ignite

  1. 82: “Paris Street,” (detail) Gustave Caillebotte, Art Institute of Chicago
  2. 84: “June Fairchild isn’t dead – “originally published in Cleaver Magazine and Enter

Here (Moon Tide Press, Whittier, CA)

  1. 85: Ajax can, photograph by Jewel Okamura
  2. 89: Poster instructing evacuation of people of Japanese ancestry, from the collection

of Don Hata, and Robert E. Kennedy Library at Cal Poly

  1. 90: Santa Anita Racetrack photo, 1942, Digital Collection, City of Los Angeles Public Library
  2. 95: Photo, “I Am an American,” Library of Congress
  3. 102: “Boy in the Pennsylvania Coal Fields circa, 1929”, published in The Birmingham

Poetry Review, Spring 2022

  1. 103: Mixed media, by Jewel Okamura
  2. 104: Photograph of Jason Alfonso, by Daniel Ritkes
  3. 109: Photo of graffiti by Jason Alfonso
  4. 112: Photo of Gerardo Lalo Fajardo’s funeral, by Alan Alforque
  5. 115: Mixed media, by Jewel Okamura
  6. 118: “Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains,” by Wang Xi Meng, Palace Museum,

Beijing, China

  1. 122: “Cake,” mixed media, by Jewel Okamura
  2. 124: Mixed media by Jewel Okamura
  3. 134: Mixed media, by Jewel Okamura
  4. 140: Mixed media by Jewel Okamura
  5. 143: “Santa Monica Pier, Moon Rise,” Oil on canvas, by Jewel Okamura