#jerichobrown

[lunchboxpoems]

[ripopentheuniverse]

If you love poetry, you should have been read Jericho Brown. No shaming here—His book 'The Tradition' is a 2019 poetry collection that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems certainly carry a certain weight, they have body to them. Which works because the poet pens about his body often. He writes of Black bodies touched with tender care by lovers and violated by those who are predators and those who do harm. . . . Poems like 'Bullets Points' point to the ever exhausting relationship Black people have to the police and being over policed here in America. The Duplex poems all share themes of love, lust, wholeness and being in repair. Jericho Brown, y'all. This is the necessary poetry book that I'm not sure we deserve but he gave it us anyway. Superb collection. I'm reading on my kindle but I just bought a physical copy and I'm looking up his other poetry collection now. . . . Also? This beautiful artwork on the cover by L. Ralphi Burges. A striking image that quietly kept looking at me, taking up space in my subconscious. It even made it into one of my dreams. And for someone who often doesn't remember most of my dreams, this was a really poetic thing. #jerichobrown #thetradition #booksofinstagram #poetry #poetrybooksofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CPPLktxgxmR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[scribesandvibes]

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[i-am-chandralynn]

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[theseaglassbooknookworld]

Weekly Reading List: Sept 13 - Sept 20

Weekly Reading List: Sept 13 – Sept 20

My current reading list for the upcoming week. Both are books that I will be reviewing as soon as I finish them. I’m trying to create a reading schedule so that I don’t forget about these books because school has finally started and I’m very stressed about it. That being said, expect other writing/reading related blog posts from me throughout the month, and, hopefully, at least one book review.

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Bowery Poetry present: Patricia Smith: 65th Birthday Marathon Reading - ...

about last night

[onallmybaldwinbooks]

Congratulations

JERICHO BROWN

NICOLE MITCHELL

TATSU AOKI

& all the other fellows.

"Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too — the terms with which they are connected to other people. This has happened to every one of us, I’m sure. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that they are alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important. Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to them from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it’s true for everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. They have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos."

James Baldwin