Showing posts with label Leila Mottley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leila Mottley. Show all posts

Sunday, October 11, 2020

These Young Black Poets Have a Message

Check out "Listen Up: These Young Black Poets Have a Message" (ten teenage writers show the future of poetry), an interactive feature in The New York Times.

Introduction by Maya Phillips
, interviews by Pierre-Antoine Louis. Poets featured: William Lohier, Nyarae Francis, Inari Williams, Alora Young, Madison Petaway, Jacoby Collins, Ava Emhoff, Leila Mottley, Akilah Toney, and Samuel Getachew.

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The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ~Jean Cocteau