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February is Black History Month, and to celebrate the contributions Black poets have made, and continue to make, to the richness of American poetry, we asked twelve contemporary Black poets from across the country to choose one poem that should be read this month and to tell us a bit about why.
18 Φεβ 2021 · Explore the simultaneity and multiplicity of Blackness in these poems by Morgan Parker, Hanif Abdurraqib, Simone White, and more. Download them for free from JSTOR, a digital library for scholars and researchers.
Below, we introduce just ten of the very best poems by African-American poets, covering over 250 years. Which important poet or poets have we missed off? For a good anthology of African-American poetry, we recommend African American Poetry: A Library of America Anthology (The Library of America).
For the month of Black History, we at Poem Analysis explored the poems of accomplished poets. To the ever-expanding repository of literature, black poets from the past to the present have brought powerful and everlasting works.
16 Ιαν 2021 · To continue the celebration of Black History, here’s a list of 10 amazing poems you can start reading beyond October. The poems are extremely thought-provoking and written by a number of talented poets of Afro- Caribbean heritage. 1. The British ( serves 60 million) by Benjamin Zephaniah.
13 Οκτ 2009 · Whatever the forms Negro poetry has taken in the last century, ranging from conventional English couplets and quatrains to free verse, from light lyrics to the well knit sonnet, from the blues and the spirituals to the highly personalized beatnik concepts of some of the younger black poets in Greenwich Village or San Francisco, the subject ...
Celebrating Black History Month. Poems, articles, and podcasts that explore African American history and culture. Illustration by Loveis Wise. Citizen: “You are in the dark, in the car...”. Citizen: “Some years there exists a wanting to escape...”. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
