Poetry Corner

20 Apr Grand Mother: For Lizzie Grace

Posted at 14:00h in Poetry Corner

Did you know / I was always watching / perched in the kitchen corner / grandgirl eyes staring staring...

Posted at 14:11h in Poetry Corner

Here we go again...

Posted at 14:41h in Poetry Corner

But it really seems easier to / Chatter about them / The little water bottles / Rather than / Everything else....

Posted at 14:18h in Poetry Corner

To demand respect, think, and rocksteady, where reasons to inspire my people to aim higher / Knowing a change is gonna come...

Posted at 15:17h in Poetry Corner

One year after Breonna Taylor's senseless murder, poet Bernadine "Dine" Watson pays tribute across space, time and sameness. ...

Posted at 15:09h in Poetry Corner

Rosemari Mealy’s exquisite poem takes us on an enduring, emotional journey to the post-emancipation period now known as Juneteenth....

Posted at 14:52h in Ma Rainey, Poetry Corner

“She was a person of the folks,” said poet and literary critic Sterling Brown who sheds love and light in this poem simply titled Ma Rainey....

Posted at 12:33h in Poetry Corner

Do not remember me as a bridge nor a roof / as the maker of legends / nor as a trap...

Posted at 14:30h in Maya Angelou, Poetry Corner

Now you understand / Just why my head’s not bowed / I don’t shout or jump about / Or have to talk real loud. ...

Posted at 11:34h in Beah Richards, Poetry Corner

It is right that I a woman / black / should speak of white womanhood....