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Tag: Black Poets

Jericho Brown
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Jericho Brown – Bullet Points

September 8, 2021September 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

Jericho Brown's poem talks to the weight carried by black Americans who live under the constant threat of police violence and injustice.

Tagged Black Poets, Death, Fear, injustice, Poetry, Social Change, ViolenceLeave a comment
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
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Marc Bamuthi Jospeh – You Have the Rite

May 5, 2021May 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

A poetic monologue about a father's fear and the rites of passage taken on by black youth emerging into a fraught world.

Tagged Black Poets, equality, parenting, Poetry, racial being, rites of passage, spoken word, structural racism1 Comment
Wanda Coleman
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Wanda Coleman – Nocturne

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Vanessa Able

Wanda Coleman's 'Nocturne' holds up the exertion born of necessity or stubbornness, and an awareness of the things—both internal and external—that impede momentum.

Tagged Black Poets, Darkness, exertion, persistence, Poetry, running, strength, struggleLeave a comment
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TOP POSTS

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    Naomi Shihab Nye - Burning the Old Year
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  • Kahlil Gibran - Fear
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  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
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- BOOK BITS -

  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
  • David Hinton
    What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
  • Virginia Woolf
    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.
  • Alan Watts
    Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao
    The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
  • The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day
    Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.


- POETRY-

  • David Cravens – American Zen
    David Cravens' epic poem "American Zen" counts as one of the more ambitious works ever published in The Dewdrop.
  • Kahlil Gibran
    Kahlil Gibran – Fear
    Kahlil Gibran's poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.
  • Will Simescu – Agrapha
    Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.
  • Emily Fernandez – Please begin
    The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.
  • Naomi Shihab Nye – Burning the Old Year
    Naomi Shihab Nye's poem for the New Year is reminiscent of the tradition of 'Año Nuevo' in some Latin American countries.
 

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