Writing for a Global Audience: An Interview with Poet Ishmael Reed
"Well, I think that my greatest accomplishment was going global, so I don’t get hemmed in by the white media’s choosing of one Black artist at a time. Powerful white media have been imposing tokens on the Black writing scene for over a hundred years. Right now it’s bourgeois feminism, or powerful neocon interests like The Atlantic and The New Republic."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Vahni Capildeo on Martin Carter’s “This Is the Dark Time My Love”
“When did you—when does anyone—start writing poetry; or, when would you call the things, the scribbles, the utterances that you make or break, 'poetry?' When they are very young, a lot of people make up rhymes, or become attached to reciting mundane or magical-seeming phrases. Children may take pleasure in exclamations, swear words, and other fragments collaged from the grown-up world of overheard speech. If those contain the early sparks of poetry, for many Caribbean readers Martin Carter is a contributor to the flame." |
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