DevotionReader Poetry Series: 30 Ways of Looking at Black Poetry
"Let the circle be unbroken" - Theme for Week #1, April 1 thru April 7
Black poets have fulfilled the role of griot – recording stories of our families and community experience, and preserving our diverse national identities as Black people throughout the U.S., Caribbean and South America. In this first week of DevotionReader's 30 Ways of Looking at Black Poetry, the theme, "Let the circle be unbroken," highlights the link between the role of the ancestral African griot and latter day Black poets, reflected in poems by Lucille Clifton, James Weldon Johnson, and Audre Lorde.
Poem post #3 for 4/3/2010
For the Record - Audre Lorde
in memory of Eleanor Bumpers
Audre Lorde from Our Dead Behind Us, Norton, 1986
Devotionreader.com 30 Days of Looking at Black Poetry -- Day: One O Black and Unknown Bards Two Listen Children Three For the Record Four Ballad of Birmingham Five Six The Idea of Ancestry Seven I Want to Write Eight A Grandfather Poem Nine Sweet Sound Ten My Brother is Homemade Eleven Those Winter Sundays Twelve SOS Thirteen Resurrections Fourteen Jessie Mitchell's Mother Fifteen April Rain Song Sixteen I've Got A Home in that Rock Seventeen Earth Screaming Eighteen Returning Spring Nineteen Newark, for Now [68] Twenty Dawn Twenty-One Fir Twenty-Two Comin Strong Twenty-Three From a Black Feminists Conference Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet Twenty-Four My Africa Twenty-Five Strong Men Twenty-Six Today's News Twenty-Seven My Guilt Twenty-Eight Forward, Always Forward Twenty-Nine The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa Thirty What Harriet Said
