Next on our list of the most beautiful poems about love is ‘To Be in Love’ by Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks was a poet, author, and teacher — and perhaps most notably, in 1950, was also the first African-American writer to receive a Pulitzer Prize. In this powerful poem, Brooks conveys...
Elaine Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1953. She is the author of ten collections of poetry including Voice-Over (Coffee House Press, 1998), which was chosen by Thom Gunn for the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2007);...
On January 31, Don Berger wrote appreciatively of Ron Padgett, whose poem "Morning" was chosen by Terence Winch as his "pick of the week." << This fable is characteristically fabulous work from Ron Padgett, whose poems I've loved since first learning of him from James Tate in the late ...
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cry: the Dean of our College; the Director of Honors; young, old, professional, professor, and recited in one great voice "We Real Cool." Yeah. We are. This book says Poetry Is For Everyone. What a Treat to be Snowbound with The 100* Best African American Poems (*but I cheated)....
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He was one of the very first artists (if not the first one) who would publicly recite poems by poets who were oppressed at the time when it was still rather dangerous to do. He would tour with his "poetry concerts" reciting poems by Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam, Hiippius, Brodsky, all his...
A kind of protest poem which is defiant as well as celebratory, ‘Still I Rise’ is about the power of the human spirit to overcome discrimination and hardship, with Angelou specifically reflecting her attitudes as a black American woman. 10. Warsan Shire, ‘Home’. We bring this pick of ...
Here’s a 1972 poem from the contemporary African-American poet Nikki Giovanni (born 1943). Although the poem begins with a mother-daughter relationship, as Giovanni recalls her own mother’s habit of sitting in the dark, the plural in the title, ‘Mothers’,...