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Black Poetry Day

When I was a student, I was introduced to numerous black poets. “Today is Black Poetry Day. It is a day to recognize the contributions of black poets to literature and celebrate the black experience as retold in poetry. Black Poetry has often provided an important space for Black resistance. It's also served as an outlet for expressing deep longings, losses, and hopes. Even under the oppression of slavery, poetry gave voice to the African American experience.” Mr. Kenneth Carroll is a native Washingtonian whose poetry and prose has appeared in Icarus, In Search of Color Everywhere, Bum Rush The Page, Potomac Review, Worcester Review, Obsidian, the Washington Post, Words & Images Journal, Indiana Review, American Poetry: The Next Generation, Beyond the Frontier, Gargoyle, Spirit & Flame, and Penguin Academics Anthology of African American Poetry. His short stories appear in Stress City, (Paycock Press), Children of the Dream, (Simon & Schuster Pocketbooks), Gargoyle Maga...