Daily Prompt Love <3 Blocking
26 July 2019
Make art about obstruction, about obstructing something, or about being obstructed.
Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay
Posts tagged ‘protest poetry’
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 What They Don't Want To Know
14 July 2019
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ―
Make art about willful ignorance.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Underground
3 June 2019
Make art about the underground, about what’s underground, about being underground, about underground action, societies, or resistance.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Pulling the Strings
2 June 2019
Make art about puppets, and who’s pulling the strings.
Daily Prompt Love <3 That Fire
20 May 2019
Make art about walking through fire, about surviving the fire.
Monday Must Read! Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
This week’s recommendation is a collection, a vital gathering of voices that should be in every poet’s library, in every classroom where we talk poetry: Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin,compiled by Phil Cushway and edited by Michael Warr.
“This stunning work illuminates today’s black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets.
Included in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America’s most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander, Ishmael Reed, and Sonia Sanchez. Included are poems such as “No Wound of Exit” by Patricia Smith, “We Are Not Responsible” by Harryette Mullen, and “Poem for My Father” by Quincy Troupe. Each is accompanied by a photograph of the poet along with a first-person biography. The anthology also contains personal essays on race such as “The Talk” by Jeannine Amber and works by Harry Belafonte, Amiri Baraka, and The Reverend Dr. William Barber II, architect of the Moral Mondays movement, as well as images and iconic political posters of the Black Lives Matter movement, Malcolm X, and the Black Panther Party. Taken together, Of Poetry and Protest gives voice to the current conversation about race in America while also providing historical and cultural context. It serves as an excellent introduction to African American poetry and is a must-have for every reader committed to social justice and racial harmony.”
Buy Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin Here
More on this collection online
Of Poetry and Protest in Poets & Writers
Michael Warr on The Morning Mixtape discussing Of Poetry and Protest
Of Poetry and Protest Readings
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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