#black poetry day

[murderousink23]

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 🇺🇳

[heartsoundslikelove]

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. Theme: We are…

[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

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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…

[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

[aslisjournal]

Asli Hersi, I want to go to another planet

[tanyaluca]

Summer Light…

Tanya Luca

[whistledownbad]

Polin Week: Day Four | Mirror

i once believed love would be black and white

but we were in screaming color

-Taylor Swift, "Daylight" & "Out of the Woods"

[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.

[blnxpc]

Implicit

[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...

[uwmspeccoll]

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.     

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-- Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker 

[ursulawhosoever]

Love how you gamble your pride

Amazed how strong you are

You risk looking in my eyes

And let me melt your heart🎶❤️‍🔥 this Song remember me kinda the Songs of King Solomon.

[theartoffresco]