“During the pandemic, a high school poetry club of Indigenous students invited me to give a reading. I shared poems I’d written about murdered and missing Indigenous relatives, poems about ancestral ...
But the real superpower of poetry lies in giving expression to our love, happiness and passion. From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice ...
Walton discusses Jessie Redmon Fauset, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Georgia Douglas Johnson, and the challenges they faced as black, female poets. Organized chronologically, the poems in this anthology span ...
You can usually stir up debate by comparing song lyrics to poetry. As a publication that ... that make a great song just as worthy as a great poem, even as these two separate types of artistic ...