I have read a ton of books in previous years but I’ve neglected to comment about them on this blog (not a surprise). There are several I want to rescue from the silent abyss and will do so ...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/06/06/short-reviews-of-a-kang-a-clemmons-and-a-manyika/
June Jordan was a Caribbean-American poet and essayist, born to Jamaican immigrants in Harlem in 1936, and raised in Bed-Stuy, New York. She was a highly acclaimed poet and essayist. She was prob...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/23/oughta-be-a-woman-by-june-jordan/
In celebration of 2018 #PoetryMonth, which would not be complete without a poem by the Lorde herself. I was never bothered by so-called negative perception of feminism. Or the tag of “angry...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/11/who-said-it-was-simple-by-audre-lorde-poetrymonth/
It gets to a point I don’t have much intro to say about the poets in my canon. Lucille Clifton was an American poet whom I’ve featured numerous times on this blog. May This be a House of Joy ...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/08/may-this-be-a-house-of-joy-by-lucille-clifton-poetrymonth/
In an audio recording (with thanks to this Brain Pickings post) of a reading the poet gave, Gwendolyn Brooks says that in this poem “I have Winnie Mandela consider herself as a poet”. Brooks ...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/04/song-of-winnie-by-gwendolyn-brooks-poetrymonth/
April is (US) National Poetry Month. It’s been a while since I celebrated the month here at Kinna Reads and frankly, I miss it. There is no theme to this year’s celebration. I might, unch...
https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/03/from-winnie-by-gwendolyn-brooks/
Because yesterday, 04/25/17, Dionne Brand and Claudia Rankine were in conversation at The Barnard Center for Research on Women (@bcrwtweets), and I know that I missed out on something great. "My ...
(April is #PoetryMonth) “What do we want from each other after we have told our stories?” asks Audre Lorde. More freedom? More justice? More love? More inclusion, better systems, an end to...
https://kinnareads.com/2017/04/18/there-are-no-honest-poems-about-dead-women-by-audre-lorde/
Women, Happy International Women’s Day! The struggle for Freedom and Justice still continues. (My favorite symbol of Ghana remains our flag, created by the genius bae Theodosia Okoh. My secon...
https://kinnareads.com/2017/03/08/for-internationalwomensday-on-reading-jackie-kay-by-ama-ata-aidoo/
Audre Lorde died on this day 23 years ago. Power The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wound...