When Poets Became Master Magicians...
I wrinkled my nose @ scents of a technological onion in #2025,
& being the #MWGIC,
I wrote of the time that #poetry became wild & dangerous,
4suddenly #poets were the geniuses of tech,
And where there is #blackpoetry there must be #whitepoetry, & maybe gray, like #magic
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/universal-jailbreak-ai-poems
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By: Daniel A. Stafford
© 11-23-2025
Article linked above by Futurism
'Door of No Return, Returned' - a poem by Kay Tracey, published in the HTI Journal of African and African Diasporic Studies on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.55914/hti.2.1.001
Another great panel at the GAPS #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her"
#BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies #LifeWriting #BlackStudies
A sample from Paul's presentation. #Canaan #Remix #Media #ArtsandHumanities #BlackPoetry #Canada #Poetry #Music #BlackMastodon
Black poet and VIU Faculty member Sonnet L’abbé gives her introduction of Paul's “literal song and dance... to listen deeply and then the words and text follow”
#Canaan #Remix #Media #ArtsandHumanities #BlackPoetry #Canada #Poetry #Music #BlackMastodon
Media Studies students are in charge of the Youtube stream in the control room.
Paul will combine sound (including a live DJ mix), images, material from the website, and text. Adopting a self-reflexive creative approach and cueing samples from interviews and the poets featured in his book, his presentation promises a captivating journey through the dynamic world of Black creativity in Canada.
#Canaan #Remix #Media #ArtsandHumanities #BlackPoetry #Canada #Poetry #Music #BlackMastodon
Starting in 15 minutes!! VIU's final A&H Colloquium of the Year!
Soundin’ Canaan: Remixing the Remix - Paul Watkins, English
Paul Watkins’ recently published book, Soundin’ Canaan: Black Canadian Poetry, Music, and Citizenship (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2025), explores the rich tapestry of Black Canadian poets, weaving together a narrative of literary, cultural, and musical history.
#Canaan #Remix #Media #ArtsandHumanities #BlackPoetry #Canada #Poetry #Music
It's #BlackPoetryDay!
You too can celebrate this day by attending a poetry reading or poetry slam, watching a video of your favourite Black poet read a poem, or take out one of these 🔥 collections & anthologies by #BlackWriters & writers of colour!
#Repost @blackliturgies
Sonia Sanchez. A reading from her on her birthday. In awe of the way she keeps her own rhythm instead of submitting to the pace of anyone else’s voice.
From Mirrors & Windows, October 24, 2001 with Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton, sponsored by The New School and Cave Canem Foundation. Full video found on Cave Canem Foundation’s youtube (link in stories).
In celebration of my father's 75th birthday today...I cooked up a little surprise for him...and you! Please help me show my dad some love for his birthday! (3/27)
#ExpressionsInLife #HarveyDKing #AfricanAmericanPoetry #BlackPoetry #BlackPoets #BlackAuthors #BlackMen #BlackFathers #Inspiration #LifeStories #HarveyKing #PoetryBooks #BookOfPoems #AmericanPoetry
looking for black speculative poetry? run tell your favorite bookseller to order this for you, The Second Stop Is Jupiter by upfromsumdirt from Wayne State University Press #blackpoetry #speculativepoetry #scifipoetry #speculativewriting
Exploring the beauty and depth of Black poetry, where words become a canvas for powerful stories, emotions, and cultural heritage. 📜🖋️ Let's celebrate the artistry and voices that have shaped and continue to enrich the literary world. #BlackPoetry #CreativeExpression 📖🌟
"The Trees by Jericho Brown
In my front yard live three crape myrtles, crying trees We once called them, not the shadiest but soothing During a break from work in the heat, their cool sweat
Falling into us. I don't want to make more of it. I'd like to let these spindly things be Since my gift for transformation here proves
Useless now that I know everyone moves the same Whether moving in tears or moving To punch my face. A crape myrtle is
A crape myrtle. Three is a family. It is winter. They are bare. It's not that I love them Every day. It's that I love them anyway."
-- "The Tradition", page 19
#JerichoBrown #QueerPoetry #BlackPoetry #TodaysPoem #Poetry #BookWyrm
"bare by Danez Smith
for you i'd send my body to battle my body, let my blood sing of tearing
itself apart, hollow cords of white knights' intravenous joust.
love, i want & barely know how to do much else. don't speak to me
about raids you could loose on me the clan of rebel cells who thirst
to watch their home burn. love let me burn if it means you
& i have one night with no barrier but skin. this isn't about danger
but about faith, about being wasted on your name. if love is a room
of broken glass, leave me to dance until my feet are memory.
if love is a hole wide enough to be God's mouth, let me plunge
into that holy dark & forget the color of light. love, stay
in me until our bodies forget what divides us, until your hands
are my hands & your blood is my blood & your name
is my name & his & his"
-- "Don't Call Us Dead: Poems", page 37
#DanezSmith #QueerPoetry #BlackPoetry #TodaysPoem #Poetry #BookWyrm
"The Morning After by L. Lamar Wilson
willows welcome fog's embrace: its shadow a lone silver glove a shroud"
-- "Sacrilegion", page 56
#LLamarWilson #QueerPoetry #BlackPoetry #TodaysPoem #Poetry #BookWyrm
"HeLa by Jericho Brown for Henrietta Lacks
I won't die. I keep white men up at night. I come from the deepest basin they know. They want to watch me grow so they took me from Mama. When they hold me close, it's always so cold, but when Sister came to see me the other day, she kissed me & called me beautiful & I was warm again, like it always was with Mama, just for a little while. Yemoja olodo awoye Yemoja...
I—two, one hundred, three million, legion, spawn of gall, glory of silt gone sour—make the slack-jawed bow & wish they could drink from my ever-after. Now these men have brought women friends to look at me. They say I'm getting stronger every day. They want me to tell them my secrets, but I don't know what they mean. How can I explain who I am if they can't see, after looking at me? They call me HeLa. Healer. Mama would be proud to know we got healing in us. I hope she understands I didn't want to go... Yemoja Orisha Orisha Yemoja fun me lowo. Asé. Asé."
-- "The Tradition", page 27
#JerichoBrown #QueerPoetry #BlackPoetry #TodaysPoem #Poetry #BookWyrm
"little prayer by Danez Smith
let ruin end here
let him find honey where there was once a slaughter
let him enter the lion's cage & find a field of lilacs
let this be the healing & if not let it be"
-- "Don't Call Us Dead: Poems", page 81
#DanezSmith #QueerPoetry #BlackPoetry #TodaysPoem #Poetry #BookWyrm
So pleased and proud to announce that my brilliant mama, Pamela Mordecai, is on the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize (a major Caribbean literary prize) longlist for her poetry collection _de book of Joseph_.
https://www.bocaslitfest.com/2023/03/08/2023-ocm-bocas-prize-longlist/
#CaribbeanLiterature
#CaribbeanPoetry
#Poetry
#BlackPoetry
