Advertisements In which I return to a childhood heroine Happy February, all. My American readers will know that this month is Black History Month. I’m going to be spotlighting a few important figures, some of whom I’ve admired for years and others of whom I’ve only just learned abut recently. Also, they’re all going toContinue reading “Poetry Spotlight: Phillis Wheatley”
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So Beautiful It Hurts
Advertisements In which I direct my readers to a departed talent Gwendolyn Brooks, poet and relentless voice, left us twenty years ago today. For those unfamiliar with her name on sight, she was the mastermind behind the oft-misread “We Real Cool,” She was also: The first Black writer (of any discipline) to win a PulitzerContinue reading “So Beautiful It Hurts”
A Birthday Salute to Paul Laurence Dunbar
Advertisements In which I mark a poet whose work has occupied my mind Allow me a moment out of my other endeavors to devote to a topic of true import. A few months or lifetimes ago, as social institutions and governments responded to the pandemic by mandating masks in public, it didn’t take long forContinue reading “A Birthday Salute to Paul Laurence Dunbar”