Matt Sandler begins his text on Black abolitionist poets with the story of Sara Lucy Bagby, a slave who escaped from slavery in Virginia and made her way to Cleveland, Ohio. Bagby was the last ...
Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow and triumph of revolutionary times. “Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era (Duke ...
On a recent evening, I had supper with a friend, a television executive. Like me, she was born in the era of World War II; like mine, her life was altered by feminism. “Tell me,” I asked, “what you ...
Long before Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement, poets like McKayla Robbin, Rupi Kaur and Yrsa Daley-Ward were writing fierce and empowering poems about the female experience, including about ...
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