Mar 5, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month: February Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be...
Feb 26, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month – February by Audre Lorde Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors or my...
Feb 15, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month: February won’t you celebrate with me Lucille Clifton, 1936 – 2010 won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up...
Feb 10, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month: February For My People Margaret Walker For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly to...
Feb 5, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month: February Middle Passage Robert Hayden I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the dying; horror the corposant and compass rose. Middle Passage: voyage...
Feb 1, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Poetry
Claudia Castro Luna becomes Washington’s next poet laureate on February 1, 2018. She was the Seattle Civic Poet from 2015-2017. Her new book Killing Marias: A Poem for Multiple Voices is now available. You can follow her on Twitter at @ClaudiaC_L Lyric for a day like...
