"A Defiant Prison Lyric" Carol Rumens finds renewed contemporary significance for Irina Ratushinskaya's "The Sparrows of Butyrka." "Ratushinskaya’s poem contains a premonition that was to come true: 'The real trial lies ahead.' And yet it determinedly lives in the moment. 'Let overwhelmed reason go' is the vital, even spiritual, commandment." via THE GUARDIAN |
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Resources for Supporting and Uplifting the Black Community The Community Justice Action Fund: "The Community Justice Action Fund is changing the conversation on gun violence prevention by leading with the people closest to the pain of everyday gun violence." African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund: "The National Trust and its partners are working to raise $25 million to create and invest in the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund—the largest preservation campaign ever undertaken on behalf of African American history." The Harriet Tubman Collective: "A Collective of Black Deaf & Black Disabled organizers, community builders, activists, dreamers, lovers striving for radical inclusion and collective liberation." |
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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. |
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What Sparks Poetry: Peter Streckfus on "An Allegory" "I thought about the future—and the shores my daughter would stand on—every time we played in water. Play with a young child is always about the objects themselves, but at the same time always seems somehow allegorical. A story unfolds. Ideas about the world are exposed: Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub…." |
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