Black Poet, White Critic A critic advises not to write on controversial subjects like freedom or murder, but to treat universal themes and timeless symbols like the white unicorn. A white unicorn? . Dudley Randall George When I was a … Continue reading
#iNeedFeminismBecause # intersectionality #maleprivilege A white woman poet using a black poet’s invention… No actual reflection done by the poet, so the problem with *using* is still there. But that can be changed! Both poems are beautiful in different ways. … Continue reading
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide Black Poets should live — not leap From steel bridges (Like the white boys do. Black poets should live — not lay Their necks on railroad tracks (like the white boys do. Black Poets should … Continue reading
Link to 2014 Black History Month poems is here. Link to all the poems on this blog by black poets is this one! There is SO much great, fun, exciting, beautiful poetry by black poets that reading them on screen … Continue reading
America If an eagle be imprisoned On the back of a coin And the coin is tossed into the sky, That coin will spin, That coin will flutter, But the eagle will never fly. Henry Dumas. From: The Oxford anthology … Continue reading
All day Poetry by Black or African poets. Celebration time. 1. When God created the black child He was showing off. “Black Cryptogram” for Sterling A. Brown by Michael S. Harper . . 2 . Tall as a Cypress (abr). … Continue reading
Black History Month- British black poet Shamshad Khan: “High Time” Black elephants jazz dancing gold and red grin i imagine they wave as they pass the window of my third floor flat just in case they are i wave back … Continue reading
Do you know of the poet Lula Lowe Weeden? She is amazing and has these surprises in her poems! “Robin Red Breast” Little Robin red breast, I hear you sing your song. I would love to have you put it … Continue reading
Professor Sterling Brown, Duke Ellington, G Frederick Stanton– http://www.howard.edu/msrc/treasures_howardiana_vips-honorees.html Poems about The Body. Black poet Sterling A. Brown- Ma Rainey. […] I talked to a fellow, an’ the fellow say, “She jes’ catch hold of us, somekindaway. She sang Backwater Blues … Continue reading
Black, mixed race poet Bessie Head, from South Africa and settled in Botswana. “Where the Wind Don’t Blow” My home is a swagger and a shrugYou know:When you get a smack in the faceAnd the pain don’t hurt: You are … Continue reading
Thinking about a poem with a migraine on the right side of your head. The one thing I noticed reading the poem the first time: I had trouble understanding what was going on, too much buzz. The second read and … Continue reading
Puttin’ on the Dog for “Corner Girl” By Everett Hoagland Is my shit correct? Is my vine correct? Are my kicks country or correct? Is my “do” down?Is my shit correct?Is my rusty black diction correct? Should my ever more erudite … Continue reading
Jazzonia by Langston Hughes Oh, silver tree! Oh, shining rivers of the soul! In a Harlem cabaret Six long-headed jazzers play. A dancing girl whose eyes are bold Lifts high a dress of silken gold. Oh, singing tree! Oh, shining … Continue reading
Brother John Black man: I’m a black man; I’m black; I am— A black man; black— I’m a black man; I’m a black man; I’m a man; black— I am— Bird, buttermilk bird— smack, booze and bitches I am Bird … Continue reading
