![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed reading about each poet's inspirations, and I am interested in reading more work from each of the poets featured. The poems themselves, along with the short biographies of each poet, were inspirational, varied, and a great representation of the depth and versatility of the African American poetry tradition. We need abolition of prisons and police, and we need it now. Nothing has really changed since Trayvon Martin's death, except that people are more aware and will actually hit the streets in response to these murders. These poems were beautiful and inspirational, but I wish they didn't seem so timely, or timeless. It's a real shame that even as I was reading this anthology of poems by Black authors in response to the political situation for Black people in the US, we are currently in the middle of the Derek Chauvin murder trial and the police have shot and killed a twenty-year-old Black man with an air freshener and a thirteen-year-old child just this week. ![]()
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