It's National Poetry Month, and we've got a special episode to celebrate this brilliantly unique form of literature. Whether or not you're a fan of poetic prose, we guarantee there's something for you. First, we're taking it back to AP English with a breakdown of poetic rhythm, including Shakespeare's fav iambic pentameter, in this week's theme, How to Read and Enjoy Poetry Correctly. Then, it's on to our book...
Black moments distilled into easily digestible verse, this book reminds us that literature lives outside classrooms or cringy rom-coms.
It's more than "To be or not to be" a "phenomenal woman" or a "brother to the night" or the "blues in your left thigh, trying to be the funk in your right. "Poetry is more than that. Poetry is life. This everyday, mundane, extraordinary life.
Poetry turns this life into a song.
Today's song is DIGGING DEEP DOWN IN THOSE ROOTS Poetry of Black Hair, Culture, Resilience, Personal & Collective Trauma by Katina Horton.
LET'S GET LIT!
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ReLIT: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
ReLIT: Educated by Tara Westover
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
ReLIT: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Small Things like These by Claire Keegan
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
ReLIT: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World by Jessica Nabongo
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
Oppenheimer’s Biography: The Real Story Behind the Movie (Part 2)
Oppenheimer’s Biography: The Real Story Behind the Movie (Part 1)
Falling by T.J. Newman
The book is better - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
ReLIT: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
ReLIT: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (Now a miniseries on HULU)
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