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In “Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman,” Sonia Sanchez presents a series of vibrant fragments that urges the speaker and reader together “Imagine” and “Picture” moments in the life of...

Haki R. Madhubuti’s “Claiming Language, Claiming Art V,” can be read as an ars poetica that makes a powerful argument that much of the work of writing a poem, or...

Interventionist Poet and Performer of (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual

Work by the Rocker, Poet, Activist, and Literary Trendsetter

In celebration of the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, this prompt explores what and who nourishes us; how we can in turn nourish others; and how poems can be both a...

In the “Introduction to Somatic Poetry rituals,” which opens their collection ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness, the inimitable CAConrad reflects on the power of ritual to inhabit the present....

Poems by a legendary Chicago poet, playwright, and novelist

A poet and translator enriching the mind and spirit

Poems from an architect of the Black Arts Movement

“Emotionally scathing” poems by this radical poet of the unsaid