NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson will be among those honoring activist poet-playwright Amiri Baraka at a wake in New Jersey. The wake will be held at Newark’s Metropolitan Baptist Church on Friday night. The 79-year-old author of blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticisms died last Thursday. Baraka’s supporters considered him a genius […]
There It Is by Jayne Cortez (1982) And if we don’t fight if we don’t resist if we don’t organize and unify and get the power to control our own lives then we will wear the exaggerated look of captivity the stylized look of submission the bizarre look of suicide the dehumanized look of fear […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A poet-historian representing a younger generation of writers will soon take office on Capitol Hill, overlooking the politicians, in a lesser-known post enshrined in federal law. The Library of Congress named Natasha Trethewey on Thursday to be its 19th U.S. poet laureate with a mission to share the art of poetry with […]
