Category: poetry
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Harlem Renaissance dialogues (part 3): A poet rediscovered in The Great Debaters
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Harlem Renaissance Dialogues: Writing and Living Black History
(Black Heritage Stamp featuring Harlem Renaissance icon Paul Robeson) Following the publication of Facts on File’s Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Sandra L. West, with a foreword by Clement Alexander Price, in 2003, a number of dialogues got underway about the famous 1920s to 1940s cultural movement. These dialogues…
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Angel of Valentine Days and Nights
(“Day Surrendering Unto Night” angel artwork by Sheila Wolk) “Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.” -Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings. Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called…
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Poem and Poet: The Onyx of Savannah
Poet Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU At the risk of sounding unforgivably vain, I have to confess that my favorite poem –only when forced to name ONE and if threatened with being deprived of books and pens and paper for the rest of my life– would have to be The Onyx…
Bridge of Silver Wings 2025 