pickI did it! It took me almost a year but I finished this excellent anthology of nature poetry. Such a fascinating exploration on the relationship between African Americans and the natural world. Highly recommended for all poetry lovers.
#wondrouswednesday
❄️Canadian Whiskey
❄️ Silver Bells (I usually listen to Bing Crosby‘s version but any one gets stuck in my head)
❄️ Flannel pjs, candles or a fireplace, handmade socks and wool blankets.
pickThis was so very good!!!
Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.
Throughly enjoying the depth, beauty and honesty of this anthology…here‘s a sample poem. Spring is finally here where I live and the farmers are hard at work turning our valley green. 🌾 #poetrymatters
GirlTrek.org is a nonprofit getting black women to walk to better health and for a better world. One if my faves from Black Futures, Ed. Kimberly Drew & Jenna Worth.
1. I like making wreaths.
2. I‘m thankful for love and life.
#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon
“I am black man of woods
weeping
where old trees root
like men
hollering
in the wind
for lost children,
where folds of knotted skin
break off
and stab the ground, and fat
black fingers
sky-scratch a warning:
there is no hiding, there is no home
in wet woods or this soil.
Here is leaf
drops like a dead bird.
Listen, the woods weep.
My fingers grip the dirt where I fall.”
- “Wood and Rain” by Melvin Dixon🌱💚🖤
400 years of nature poetry by black poets organized NOT chronologically but in 10 cycles with titles such as “Just Looking,” “Nature, Be with Us,” “Dirt On Our Hands,” and “What The Land Remembers;“ etc. 93 poets. 180 poems.
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Got to get my own copy before I return this one to the library 🖤💚. #poetry #nature #naturepoems #blacknaturepoems #blacknature
pickBook #26 of the year: “black nature: Four Centuries is African American Nature Poetry, edited by Camille T. Dungy
Another absolutely incredible book. I bought this after reading a poem by Camille T. Dungy in the anthology I read a few books ago. Her perspective on nature is so similar to my own and I wanted to read more. Although this only has a few poems by her, it‘s an amazing collection and her introduction was invaluable in providing context.
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry | 
