#black poetry day

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10/17/2024 is Global Ethics Day 🌎, International ShakeOut Day 🌎, Black Poetry Day 🇺🇸, National Edge Day 🇺🇸, National Mulligan Day 🇺🇸, National Pasta Day 🍝🇺🇸, Get to Know Your Customers Day 🇺🇸, National Get Smart About Credit Day 🇺🇸, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 🇺🇳

[heartsoundslikelove]

Black Poetry Day - Gwyndolyn Brooks & Toni Morrison

Celebrate Black Poetry Day with dedications to Toni Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks! 🎉 On this special day, October 17th, we are thrilled to celebrate Black Poetry Day—a day dedicated to honoring the profound voices and contributions of Black poets throughout history. Sponsored by the Garden of Neuro Institute, we shine a light on two literary legends whose works have inspired and uplifted…

[caseysbell]

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

[aslisjournal]

Asli Hersi, I want to go to another planet

[wearefallensouls]

You are stuck in a time loop.

This Road by Poe / post by @janemorris / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), dir. Tom Stoppard / Circles by Marion Ethel Hamilton / Happy Death Day (2017), dir. Christopher Landon / Alan Wake II / Fatigue Empire by Cynthia Cruz / Black Sails episode XXXII

[yng-thoughts]

KK

[tanyaluca]

Summer Light…

Tanya Luca

[aaknopf]

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.

[spyboy2000]

[blnxpc]

Implicit

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Some People Dream in Abstract (Great Smoky Mountains National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: Some People Dream in Abstract Thoughts Like an Expressionist's Painting While other are bizarre, almost seemingly surreal Mine have been both, and sometimes in red But right now, I only dream wonderment for what stands in front Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one afternoon in the Cades Cove area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This was at a roadside pullout along the main park road with a view looking to the north-northwest to a group of black bears (momma bear and three cubs) who happened to be crossing this asphalt road. I captured quite a few images at this location, but this is one of the few that I really liked of the group because the momma bear happened to be looking in my general direction while her cub continued on.

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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 - Roger Robinson

Celebrating Black Poetry Day at the Garden of Neuro Institute! 🎉 On this wonderful day, October 17th, the Garden of Neuro Institute is thrilled to celebrate Black Poetry Day! Today, we come together to honor the incredible voices of Black poets whose words have profoundly shaped and inspired generations. 🖤 We’re starting the celebration with a special video tribute to the legendary Roger…

[depraved-raven]

“for you, i am fragile

for you, i will strip

of my clothes and my armor

i would tear the flesh right off the bone

for you, i am naked

for you, i am open”

— @holyaches on twitter/x

[kumsal-thingss]

Kimbilir, kaç defa geçtik birbirimizden aynı caddelerden.

Ne kadar yakınım sana.

Ve ne kadar uzak...

[not-so-superheroine]

"The Restoration" by Sister Amy Robbins

Sister Amy Robbins, born in 1884, was a Black Latter Day Saint. As a young woman, she joined the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was passionate about the gospel and restoration. Due to institutional racism in the church and racism from white members, Sister Robbins faced a lifetime of challenges in the church, yet she remained firmly rooted in her faith while actively advocating for a church where ALL people are welcome. Her poem, "The Restoration" gives us a glimpse into her faith and what the Restoration means to her.

The Church was brought out of the wilderness, The gospel gifts have all been restored. Showing forth God’s love and great tenderness, To all those who put all their trust in the Lord.  If man will have faith and truly repent,  Be baptized and his sins washed away,  The gifts from above will surely be sent  As promised in this latter day. True to form the prophet in this latter day Gave his life as a martyr for Truth. He searched in the scriptures to find the true way  And God called him while yet in his youth. And so God has in these latter days, Made available to man a new birth, Faith, repentance, baptism, just as in old ways ~ When Jesus was here on the earth. Let us spread glad tidings of the restoration And work while it is yet called today Until we have reached out into every nation And spread the gospel of truth all the way.