Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

For Veterans Day, here is "Plea of the Negro Soldier" by Charles Frederick White. Thanks to African American Poetry: A Digital Anthologyby Amardeep Singh. I'll be going back to this frequently.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

I wanted to do something different for Halloween week. Here is Ishmael Reed with a poem more than fit to be alongside  this week's Oddball Horrorthon. Read his poem "Black Cock" via the Poetry Foundation site.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

I have had Randall Jarrell, who I mostly read about in the infamous book Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle, I want to read more of him now. Let's start with a poem I've read before. Revisit "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.

 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Two from Jose Hernandez Diaz this week. Read "The Man in a 'Don’t Deport Me I’m A Christian' Shirt" and "The Man in a 'Don’t Deport Me I’m A Capitalist' Shirt" via the online journal Anomaly.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

There are a fee poems out there in the wild web from poet Oliver Baez Bendorf. I finally decided on "I Want Biodegradable Sex" on the Poetry Daily website, where you can also read an essay on the poem by Bendorf. 

 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Thinking of lost friends this year. Deta Galloway is not even six months gone. A fact I can barely believe. This morning I'm highlighting one of the last poems we published in Oddball Magazine during her lifetime. Read "Inside" and take care of each other today.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

I'm planning to buy one of Sean Patrick Mulroy's books soon.  Today, we'll feature one of his poems published in Muzzle Magazine. Read "demon blues."

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Through this essay I found a poem by Palestinian poet Fady Joudah. Read "Mimesis" on the Poetry Foundation website. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Because there's at least one anniversary this week that people are going to make about themselves, here's the late Amiri Baraka's infamous poem "Somebody Blew Up America," a poem targeted for calling out Irsael while overlooking when the poem brought up persecution of Jewish people. Given that a lot of writing after 9/11 hasn't aged well, this poem still merits a read. Thanks to the Black Agenda Report website for posting the poem.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

They announced Wendell Berry's death yesterday. Here's his poem "The Peace of Wild Things" thanks to the Scottish Poetry Library. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey has give me some great recommendations just by way of her existing and reading. So here's a poem of Jamilla's called "Black Curses and Songs" published in the journal OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L).

 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

The funeral for my partner's mother is today. Here's "The Truth the Dead Know" by Anne Sexton courtesy of the Poetry Foundation.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Because I'm still in a Canadian state of mind, here's a fitting poem by Leonard Cohen. Read "All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann" courtesy of the Read A Little Poetry website. 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

This morning, we are focusing on Canadian poet Margaret Avison. Here's a summer-ish poem of hers (it has swimmer" from the Poetry in Voice website. Read "The Swimmer's Moment."

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Thanks to Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey once again, I've discovered poet Tiana Clark. Read her poem "My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work" thanks to the Poetry Foundation.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey recently recommended a collection by peot Omotara James, and I'm grateful for the recommendation. Read her poem "Tripartite" over at Coffee House Press.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

To mark Lindsey Graham's death, here is a brutal and necessary poem by Mohammed El-Kurd. Read "Tonight We Die as a Family" over at The Poetry Society.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Pride Month is done, but I'd like to feature Emma Wells, a Pride staple at Oddball Magazine. Her poem "Fall" comes courtesy of Spillwords.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

In light of the Great American State Fair, here's the poem "State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day" by Maryann Corbett, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation site.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

You deserve a modern poet for Pride Month. So here's the stunning "Ravens Aren’t Songbirds, and We’ll Never Meet Again" from the latest issue of beestung.