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Lucille Clifton did not need elaborate language to make a poem powerful. She wrote about women, family, bodies, love, aging,...
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Good Woman feels less like reading a literary monument and more like being invited into Lucille Clifton’s life. Published in...
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There is a particular exhaustion that comes with being watched before you have been heard. A Black woman can enter...
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For a long time, the literary world treated poetry like fine china, something to be taken out only on special...
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While names like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen often dominate conversations about the Harlem Renaissance, the movement...
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Before freedom could be claimed with the body, it had to be claimed with the mind. George Moses Horton (1798–1883)...
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A Legacy Too Often Overlooked Margaret Walker stands among the most influential but under-recognized poets of the Civil Rights era....
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Poetry has always been a mirror for the world and a medicine for the soul. When life shifts without warning,...
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By Phoenix KabaliSongs of the Shadows, Intellectual Ink Magazine Issue 30 Poet Louie B. has built a body of work...
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Publishing poetry in literary journals can feel mysterious, even intimidating. But at its core, submitting work is less about cracking...
