"Growing up in Gettysburg taught me that lots of stories live under us, undetectable, underground. Back then as many as 5 million visitors tramped through Gettysburg annually. Men with metal detectors knocked on doors well beyond the battlefields, doors like ours, asking to scan for whatever churned below us....What lived above ground was at best irrelevant."
Resources for Supporting and Uplifting the Black Community
EatOkra: The EatOkra app guides diners to black-owned restaurants in their local neighborhoods and when travelling, allowing them to support black-owned businesses while also discovering new restaurants.
Communities United Against Police Brutality: "This Twin Cities-based organization confronts police brutality by providing those in need with services including, but not limited to, crisis hotlines and legal, medical, and psychological referrals."
Innocence Project: "The Innocence Project's mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment."
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."
