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Pithy and powerful, poetry is a popular art form at protests and rallies. From the civil rights and women’s liberation movements to Black Lives Matter, poetry is commanding enough to gather crowds in a city square and compact enough to demand attention on social media.
- Beat! Beat! Drums
Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless...
- Ways of Rebelling
It helps to be between wars, to die a few times each day to...
- Riot Police
Your shield like a wing, protects your bulletproof heart...
- For My People
For my people For my people In an interview for Callaloo...
- They Feed They Lion
From my five arms and all my hands, From all my white sins...
- Logic
Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment. By The...
- I Look at The World
I look at the world From awakening eyes in a black face— And...
- In The Middle of This Century
I stroked your hair In the opposite direction to your...
- Beat! Beat! Drums
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.
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.
The poems collected here revisit the heroic struggles of civil rights activists 50 years later.
Bring your Black History Month celebration to the classroom through poetry with a selection of lesson plans featuring poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Marilyn Nelson, and Claudia Rankine, among others.
18 Φεβ 2021 · Here are ten poems that explore past and present, pain and love, language and family, history and identity, all written by contemporary Black poets. They’re each available for free download: “Let Me Handle My Business, Damn,” Morgan Parker
26 Φεβ 2021 · The history of Black Americans in the U.S. covers a panoply of achievements—from notable artists and athletes to statesmen and professors to seemingly ordinary people who were determined to take a stand against injustice and inequity. The poems below honor just a small sampling of people who have indelibly changed American culture.
