Roger Robinson Meets Rachel Long: "Racism Has Never Gone Away"
"I think you can’t be anything but hopeful doing this work. I feel like a mosquito going up against Godzilla. I am not going to topple you but I am going to bite you. And believe it or not, I have always had connections with people through poetry. Being black, male and 230lb, expressing vulnerability is a very rare thing, I’ve realised."
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Resources for Supporting and Uplifting the Black Community
Blk Joy Book Scholarship: "The Blk Joy Book Scholarship is a selective scholarship program established to provide financial assistance to a deserving young Black student in pursuit of a collegiate education. Recipients must use the scholarship funds in order to purchase academic books for each school semester of one school year."
Coming to the Table: "Working together to create a just and truthful society that acknowledges and seeks to heal from the racial wounds of the past, from slavery and the many forms of racism it spawned."
Required Reading on Race: "Black-owned indie bookstores recommend readings "which discuss racism, and the violent and complicated history between black and white people in America, using inventive storylines and moving prose." |
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Poetry Daily stands with the Black community.
We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality.
We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world.
Black Lives Matter. |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Laura Jaramillo on Lyn Hejinian’s "Gesualdo"
"It was not the first poem I loved but it was one which reshaped the foundations of what I thought poetry could be—abstract elliptical essay, sensuous discourse on aesthetic form, history, and a strange kind of oblique confession all woven together into a sprawling imagistic song." |
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