10/17/2023 is Global Ethics Day 🌎, Black Poetry Day 🇺🇲, National Edge Day 🇺🇲, National Mulligan Day 🇺🇲, National Pasta Day 🍝🇺🇲, National Pharmacy Technician Day 🇺🇲, Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity (🖕)🇺🇲, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 🇺🇳
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Black Poetry Day - Call for Submissions
On Behalf of: Garden of Neuro Publishing
We are having a Call for Submissions
The Garden of Neuro Institute is an incubator for women’s agency and leadership. We are a community for women who want to see deeply and be seen for who we are. We are a diverse group of amazing women, with much to share.
As a women’s group, we offer opportunities for all genders and races.
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Celebrating Black Poetry Day: Honoring the Power of Words
https://caseysamuelbell.medium.com/celebrating-black-poetry-day-honoring-the-power-of-words-ab1959b326fc
#poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #BlackPoetryDay #blackpoets
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October 17, 2022 - NATIONAL BOSS’S DAY – NATIONAL PASTA DAY – NATIONAL MULLIGAN DAY – NATIONAL EDGE DAY – BLACK POETRY DAY – NATIONAL CLEAN YOUR VIRTUAL DESKTOP DAY
October 17, 2022 – NATIONAL BOSS’S DAY – NATIONAL PASTA DAY – NATIONAL MULLIGAN DAY – NATIONAL EDGE DAY – BLACK POETRY DAY – NATIONAL CLEAN YOUR VIRTUAL DESKTOP DAY
OCTOBER 17, 2022 | NATIONAL BOSS’S DAY | NATIONAL PASTA DAY | NATIONAL MULLIGAN DAY | NATIONAL EDGE DAY | BLACK POETRY DAY | NATIONAL CLEAN YOUR VIRTUAL DESKTOP DAY
NATIONAL BOSS’S DAY
On October 16th, National Boss’s Day, also known as National Boss Day or Bosses Day, recognizes the hardworking boss overseeing the workplace. Employees across the United States show appreciation and thankfulness…
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Leila Mottley was regularly writing and performing poetry even before she published her novel Nightcrawling at only nineteen, in 2022; today we get an advance peek into her forthcoming first collection, woke up no light. Divided into hoods—sections on Girlhood, Neighborhood, Falsehood, and Womanhood—the poems instruct us, as here, in the art of noticing, speaking boldly, and feeling deeply.
what to do when you see a Black woman cry
stop. hum a little / just for some sound / just for a way to fill us up
it is streetlamp time / all moon-cheeked black girls are
mourning / a wailing kind of undoing
don’t mistake this as a tragedy / it is sacred
don’t mistake this as a glorious pain / we hurt.
don’t tell me it will be alright.
make me a gourmet meal and don’t expect me
to do the dishes after
don’t try to hug me without asking first
if i slept last night / if i need some
jasmine tea / and a bath in a tub
deep enough to fit my grief
and if i say i want a hug
don’t touch my hair while you do it / don’t twist
my braids around your fingers
or tell me my fro is matted in the back
from banging my head
on the wall of so many askings
you think we are sobbing for the men,
but we are praying for the men / their favorite
sweat-soaked t-shirts
we are screeching for our thighs
for our throats / and our teeth-chipping / for the terror
and the ceremony / and the unending always
of this sky
so if i let you see a tear drip / if i let you see my teeth chatter
know you are witnessing a miracle
know you are not entitled to my face crack / head shake / sob
but i do not cry in front of just anyone
so stop. hum a little / just for some sound / just to fill me up
More on this book and author:
Learn more about woke up no light by Leila Mottley.
Browse other books by Leila Mottley and follow her on Instagram @leilamottley.
Click here to read Leila Mottley's curated list of recommended books about the San Francisco Bay Area.
Leila Mottley will be in Brooklyn for a Poetry Night reading and conversation with Tatiana Johnson-Boria at Books Are Magic (Montague Street location) on April 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM. The event will also be livestreamed for free on Youtube.
Visit our Tumblr to peruse poems, audio recordings, and broadsides in the Knopf poem-a-day series.
To share the poem-a-day experience with friends, pass along this link.
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International Women's Day
In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (March 8), we’re showcasing one of writer, educator, intersectional feminist, poet, civil rights activist, and former New York public school librarian Audre Lorde’s (1934–1992) early collections of poetry. From a Land Where Other People Live was published in 1973 by Detroit’s groundbreaking Broadside Press. This independent press was founded in 1965 by poet, University of Detroit librarian, and Detroit’s first poet laureate Dudley Randall (1914-2000) with the mission to publish the leading African American poetry of the time in a well-designed format that was also "accessible to the widest possible audience." A comprehensive catalog of Broadside Press’s impressive roster of artists (including Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Alice Walker, to name a few), titled Broadside Authors and Artists: An Illustrated Biographical Directory, was published in 1974 by educator and fellow University of Detroit librarian Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey (1906-1983).
Lorde described herself in an interview with Callaloo Literary Journal in 1990 as “a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, warrior, poet, mother doing [her] work”. She dedicated her life to “confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.” From a Land Where Other People Live is a powerfully intimate expression of her personal struggles with identity and her deeply rooted critiques of social injustice. The work was nominated for the National Book Award for poetry in 1974, the same year that Broadside Press published New York Head Shop and Museum, another volume of Lorde’s poetry featured in our collection. You can find more information on her writings and on the organization inspired by her life and work by visiting The Audre Lorde Project.
More posts on Broadside Press publications
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-- Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker
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