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Word Cloud: TRANSFORMATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What’s in a name? Names are a symbol for who we are, but sometimes a birth name can feel like a once-warm coat we’ve outgrown: a little shabby, and tight in all the wrong places. So … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Black History Month, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Transformation, Yusef Komunyakaa
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Word Cloud: CHIAROSCURO
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD For several years now, Right Wing think tanks and other revisionists have striven to convince us that “Black Slavery Wasn’t as Bad as You’ve Been Taught.” Since the people putting this theory out there are white, and have … Continue reading
Posted in History, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Adrienne Rich, Black History Month, Camille T. Dungy, Chiaroscuro, Lynda Hull, Philip Levine, Tell It Slant
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Word Cloud: CONVERSATION
In honor of Black History Month by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is a strong tradition of women in America being involved in social justice movements. The Abolitionist, Women’s Rights and Civil Rights movements all have notable women in their histories. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Black History Month, Conversation, Gwendolyn Brooks, Natasha Trethewey, Nikki Giovanni, Nikky Finney, Robin Coste Lewis
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Word Cloud: DREAM
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD February is Black History Month in the United States. When Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, he wasn’t the first African-American to talk about a dream for a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged Alice Walker, Black History Month, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, Martin Luther King Jr, Robert Hayden
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Word Cloud: PROFANITY (Redux – Black History Month)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Please take this week’s title as a warning. If you find profanity offensive, this installment of Word Cloud is one you may want to skip. An article I skimmed for this week’s post was called Poets Nobody Reads, which isn’t entirely … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Black History Month, Carolyn Rogers, Profanity
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Word Cloud: EMPATHY (Black History Month Redux)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I’ve read a lot of statements by writers about writing, and they are all true, but many of them are only true for that one writer and their particular ‘process.’ I like this comment by Nikki Giovanni (1943 – … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Black History Month, Empathy, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Nikki Giovanni, Racism, Writing
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Word Cloud: CALL-AND-RESPONSE (Redux – Black History Month)
First posted for Black History Month – February 26, 2016. Updated and expanded – February 8, 2019 by Nona Blyth Cloud Call-and-response is one of the most ancient forms of human expression — in music, it is a phrase played by … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Black History Month, Call-and-Response, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mahmoud Darwish, Oscar Wilde, Robin Coste Lewis, Russell Lee, Voyage of the Sable Venus
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Word Cloud: RIFT (Redux – for Black History Month)
by Nona Blyth Cloud We sometimes forget how closely History is following behind us. Just over 50 years ago, it was still illegal for people of different races to marry in 16 U.S. states, mostly in the South. It wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged 1st Louisiana Native Guard, Black History Month, Miscegenation, Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Racism, Rift
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Word Cloud: TRANSFORMATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What’s in a name? Names are a symbol for who we are, but sometimes a birth name can feel like a once-warm coat we’ve outgrown: a little shabby, and tight in all the wrong places. So … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged African American poets, Black History Month, Ntozake Shange, Transformation, Yusef Komunyakaa
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Word Cloud: CONVERSATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is a strong tradition of women in America being involved in social justice movements. The Abolitionist, Women’s Rights and Civil Rights movements all have notable women in their histories. So it should be no surprise … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged African American women, Black History Month, Conversation, Gwendolyn Brooks, Natasha Trethewey, Nikki Finney, Nikki Giovanni, Robin Coste Lewis
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