I glanced at him casually married him by the way we fooled around by the way never had a child I brewed some soup casually we lived by the way with some casual friends time slipped away by the way we aged by the way fell gravely ill even became a model by the way what a perfect couple ...such harmony we just took our last breath the sun cast a glance by the way on a balcony with no one
"I mean, if a catfish could write poems, his poems might have some water in them. Some baited hooks. Seaweed and whatnot. My poems engage racism, violence, and systemic injustice because that’s where I live. It’s where we all live. Just that some of us don’t have the luxury of turning away."
Resources for Supporting and Uplifting the Black Community
Know Your Rights Camp: Colin Kaepernick founded this organization that holds education seminars across the country for black and brown youth. Know Your Rights Camp teamed up with defense lawyers in the Minneapolis area to help provide legal resources for those in Minnesota in need right now.
Black AIDS Institute: The mission of the Black AIDS Institute is "to stop the AIDS epidemic in black communities by engaging and mobilizing black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront HIV."
The Conscious Kid: "An education, research and policy organization dedicated to reducing bias and promoting positive identity development in youth. We....promote access to children’s books centering underrepresented and oppressed groups." See, for example, Black Books Matter: Children's Books Celebrating Black Boys.
Poetry Daily stands with the Black community. We oppose racism, oppression, and police brutality. We will continue to amplify diverse voices in the poetry world. Black Lives Matter.
"I would often dart into the library and sit sopping on that bench waiting for the rain to let up. That’s where I’d linger as my doused clothes would start to make me shiver in the aggressive air conditioning. Which is why I was literally trembling, I can remember, when I first came across Galway Kinnell’s When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone, which turned out not only to be a book, but also a poem within the book, and eleven little poems within that poem."
