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Then they said I was too
For today: June Jordan’s “A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades.“
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one vote per eligible voter/ was all stacy abrams needed
Check out “women’s voting rights at 100 (but who’s counting?)” by Evie Shockley.
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Eve Ewing’s 1919
If you buy one book of poetry this summer, maybe this one should be it. Check out some poems from the book here.
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Let’s speak
This poem, April, from Jean Valentine in 1968, echoes today. Thanks to poet Lynn Wagner for introducing me to this poem.
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a name only the brave can say
For today: Give Your Daughters Difficult Names by Aurora Poet Laureate (and someone I personally adore) Assétou Xango.
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happens/ Almost everywhere in this country every day
Here’s “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” by Terrance Hayes.
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making it easier for us to breathe
Here’s “A Small Needful Fact,” a poem about Eric Garner, by Ross Gay.
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When the End Comes
Readers of this blog might recall that I was posting a poem a day during the first part of the quarantine, and then I stopped because I was writing “a longer piece.” I wasn’t sure what the piece was at first, but now it’s finished, and here it is. I…
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I can’t breathe
Yesterday afternoon my daughter and I attended a small, peaceful march in our town, Golden. I have lived in Golden for two years and I adore it; I also feel like in some ways I am meant to live here because I lived here for awhile as a baby and…
Kimberly O'Connor 