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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The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow (Part 1)
WILD CARD: Fences, a Play by August WIlson
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
ReLIT: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
ReLIT: Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Pure Heart: A Novel by Rajia Hassib
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke
”Wilde” Card: The Importance of Being Earnest, a Play by Oscar Wilde
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Part 2)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Part 1)
Invisible Girl: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
ReLIT: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
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