Connection
Last year the Just Write virtual writing group wrote their way through Black History Month by connecting with the words, values, and lives of Black poets. I curated the poems with an eye toward poems that would connect us as humans. The first of four collections included two poems by Nikki Giovanni to bookend and one each from Clint Smith and Lucille Clifton:
- Allowables by Nikki Giovanni (read by Tabia Yapp)
- No More Elegies Today by Clint Smith
- Sisters by Lucille Clifton
- Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
Each poem is a complex invitation to write that I hope you take up for Black History Month and beyond.
