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Jul 01
Amplify Black Poets, Day 27
It Was Summer Now and the Colored People Came Out Into the Sunshine by Morgan Parker They descend from the boat two by two. The gap in Angela Davis’s teeth speaks to the gap in James Baldwin’s teeth. The gap in James Baldwin’s teeth speaks to the gap in Malcolm X’s Teeth. The gap in …
Jun 30
Amplify Black Poets, Day 26
Highflown:Love by Eugene B. Redmond In the highflown languageOf moon travelersSocial Scientists sort our hurts—Add their smog-crippled vision—And rearrange our private painsAlong the Wall Street of current demands:And my people become theCocaine that makes America high:Become dreamsAmerica sucks through maniacal straws of sleep;Discounting our lore,The scientists say we cannot love say our needs are …
Jun 29
Guidelines for the Amplify Poets of Color Project
Greetings, MoSt Poetry members! Thank you for considering sharing the poetry you find especially moving, inspiring, or amazing by Poets of Color. This group includes Black poets, but also Indigenous/Native American poets, Hispanic/Chicano/Latinx poets, and poets of Middle Eastern, East Indian, and Asian descent. We are sharing this poetry on the MoSt Facebook page (and …
Jun 29
Amplify Black Poets, Day 25
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde For those of us who live at the shorelinestanding upon the constant edges of decisioncrucial and alonefor those of us who cannot indulgethe passing dreams of choicewho love in doorways coming and goingin the hours between dawnslooking inward and outwardat once before and afterseeking a now that can …
Jun 28
Amplify Black Poets, Day 24
Incident by Natasha Trethewey We tell the story every year—how we peered from the windows, shades drawn—though nothing really happened,the charred grass now green again. We peered from the windows, shades drawn,at the cross trussed like a Christmas tree,the charred grass still green. Thenwe darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps. At the cross trussed …