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"The Dark Room Collective was founded in Boston in 1988 by a group of African American poets led by Thomas Sayers Ellis and Sharan Strange. The mission of the Collective was to form a community of established and emerging African American writers. Major Jackson, John Keene, Janice Lowe, Carl Phillips, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Artress Bethany White, and Kevin Young were also members of this group. Originally conceived as a reading series, the Collective became a small community of poets. Strange wrote, "It was the sustaining practice of writing in community just as much as the activism of building a community-based reading series for writers of color that kept us engaged in collectivity" (Painted Bride Quarterly 60)" From: Poets.org · · #TheDarkRoomCollective #AfroetryWorks #Afroetry #Poets #poetssociety #PoetsofInstagram #poetsofig #poetscommunity #poetscollective #writers #writersofinstagram #writerssociety #writerscommunity #blackpoets #blackwriters #BlackVoices #Blackcreatives #creatives #poetry #Boston #Harvard
"In the Mourning" - Kailande Cassamajor 💜 @kaimelanin 🎶: "My Little Brown Book" x John Coltrane & Duke Ellington · · · #Afroetryworks #Afroetry #Poetry #Poems #Poets #Poet #Blackwriters #Blackpoets #writerscommunity #writers #authors #spokenword #writersofinstagram #writersig #PoetsofInstagram #PoetsofIG #BlackLives #choreopoem #poetscommunity #jazz #blackvoice #creatives #Blackcreatives
Creating is a form of self-discovery, purpose, and reconciliation 💜. · · · #AfroetryWorks #Afroetry. #Poetry #Poems #Poets #poetssociety #poetscommunity #PoetsofIG #PoetsofInstagram #writers #BlackWriters #BlackAuthors #BlackCreatives #AfricanDiaspora #create #creatives #authors #passion #choreopoem #writerscommunity #WritersofIG #writerssociety #bgwwcommunity
"What one does realize is that when you try to stand up and look the world in the face like you had a right to be here, without knowing that this is the result of it, you have attacked the entire power structure of the Western world." - James Baldwin Born on this day in New York City, 1924. · · #JamesBaldwin #BlackWriters #BlackAuthors #AfroetryWorks #readers #writers #blackvoices #race #novelist #author #bookstagram
"Untitled: A Voice" - Kailande Cassamajor 🎶: "Bullet Proof Soul" x Sade · · #Afroetryworks #Afroetry #Poetry #Poems #Poets #Poet #Blackwriters #Blackpoets #PoetsofInstagram #PoetsofIG #BlackLives #Sade #BlackVoices #BlackWomen #poetscommunity #spokenword #jazz #poetssociety #creatives #blackcreatives #writerssociety #womenpoets #WritersofIG #writerscommunity #improvisation #creative #free
"Redemption" is a poem I wrote earlier this year after having read short stories by Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian author and storyteller. I thought about the resilence of my foremothers in Haiti and the incendiary might of those that fought in the revolution in 1804. This poem and three others were first published in the Spring 2018 issue of A Gathering Together literary journal. @agatheringtogether · · #poets #poetry #poems #caribbeanpoets #poet #poetsofinstagram #poetssociety #poetsofig #blackpoets #haiti #blackwomen #blackwriters #womenpoets #blackwomenwriters #poetrycommunity
Whatever. However. No Matter What. · · · #AfroetryWorks #Afroetry #womenwriters #ntozakeshange #zoranealehurston #blackwomenauthors #blackauthors #wrbg #BlackPoets #poetry #PoetsofIG #writersociety #WritersofIG #poetsofinstagram #writerscommunity #writersofinstagram #poets #poems #currentlyreading #aaauthors #blackbooks #womenpoets #indiaarie #beautiful #spokenword #writersnetwork #poetryporn #poetssociety #poetscommunity #poetic
If you are in DMV area, and you need a place to chill, take a stop by my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE black owned bookstore in D.C. Sankofa Videos, Books, & Cafe is the perfect spot to warm up and get cozy with some great food, friends and a book 💓 @sankofadc · · · #AfroetryWorks #Afroetry #Books #Bookstagram #Bibliophile #Bookish #greatreads #readers #womenwriters #tonimorrison #Africanwriters #blackbuisness #blackwomenauthors #blackauthors #wrbg #BlackPoets #poetry #PoetsofIG #writersociety #WritersofIG #poetsofinstagram #writerscommunity #writersofinstagram #poets #poems #currentlyreading #aaauthors #blackbooks #DMV #bookstore
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