Black Poets Public
Created and curated by Robin Riley
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1919 by Eve L. Ewing
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the …
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In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, …
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In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of …
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Layering joy and urgent defiance—against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone—Trethewey’s work gives …
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Wicked World! by Benjamin Zephaniah
A cool and happening collection of poems from the inimitable Benjamin Zephaniah Welcome to the wild and wicked words of …
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God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson (The Penguin poets)
The inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson.
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one …
