Five Inspirational Poems for Black Women
March 8, 2016
“We Wear The Mask” was first published in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s collection Majors and Minors in 1895. Written...
In her beautiful poem, Ancestral Intelligence, CJ Spears evokes a deeper intelligence rooted in the body, in community,...
“It is up to the living to keep in touch with the dead. Man’s power don’t end with death. We just move on to another place. A place where we go...
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth...
Maya Angelou lived many lives in her 86 years. She was an author, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage...
i am accused of tending to the pastas if i made it,as if i sculpted itwith my own hands. i did not.this past was waiting for mewhen i came,a monstrous unnamed...
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the...
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in...
There is a searing, uncompromising anger that runs through the work of Haitian writer and revolutionary Jacques Roumain, an anger forged in the fires of captivity, colonisation, and class oppression. Nowhere...
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have...
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign...
Etheridge Knight’s poem “Belly Song” appears in his 1973 collection Belly Song and Other Poems, published after his release from prison and is recognised as a key work in his emergence as a major Black poet of...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
