Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a link to a poem by a Black author. February 18 MutaBaruka "Dis Poem youtu.be/Pn-f8PgLVjU #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a link to a poem by a Black author. February 17 Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47539/... #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black HIstory Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. February 15 Joshua Bennett "Balaenoptera" youtu.be/Q9TWj3kb4cA #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black HIstory Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. February 14 Wanda Coleman "Beaches. Why I Don’t Care For Them" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/155699... #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black HIstory Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. February 13 Gwendolyn Brooks "Primer For Blacks" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51838/... #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a link to a poem by a Black author. February 12 Ntozake Shange "de library waz right down from de trolly tracks" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/149660... #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black History Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. February 11 Kevin Young "Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52826/... #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black HIstory Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. February 10 Hanif Willis Abdurraqib "And Also the Work of Dancing" youtu.be/9FKimtpl5CE #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a link to a poem by a Black author. February 9 Nikki Giovanni "A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long" glbbaisd.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/... #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black HIstory Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. February 8 The Last Poets "Understand what black is" youtu.be/RWwdV6bijwo #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a link to a poet by a Black author. February 6 Sonia Sanchez "Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman" #BlackHistoryMonth www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Each day during Black History Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. February 5 Nikky Finney "Hotbed 66" poets.org/poem/hotbed-66 #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a link to a poem by a Black author. February 4 Sonia Sanchez - This Is Not a Small Voice poets.org/poem/not-sma... #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2026

Each day during Black History Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. February 3 Clint Smith "History Reconsidered" youtu.be/rEVowYqRAJE #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black HIstory Month I'll post a poem by a Black author. Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/... #BlackHistoryMonth

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a link to a poem by a Black author. February 1 Evie Shockley "waiting on the mayflower" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55876/...

I fully agree with the author so I guess that makes me part of the problem. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Watching Donalds simping for the Trump bill and assuring everyone that this time "trickle down economics" will REALLY work for the benefit of all, reminded me of Bullwinkle telling Rocky that "this time" he really could pull a rabbit out of his hat.

This piece will be played at July 4th concerts all over the country. It was written by a gay Jewish socialist whose parents were Russian immigrants. There's a lesson in this that I wish more Americans understood and took to heart. youtu.be/0KxMc_tyQBo?...

This is why we should all read more Kurt Vonnegut... youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ?...

An insider's view of the demise of VOA and its sibling networks www.cjr.org/first_person...

As in previous years, for my final Black History Month post, here's a performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Lyrics by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson youtu.be/cLmWe4lwoUQ?...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth For my people - Margaret Walker poets.org/poem/my-people

It appears that the Republican reps who've been catching hell from their constituents at their town hall meetings because of the bull-in-a-china-shop tactics of Elon Musk and his DOGE whiz-kids have come up with a solution...They're cutting back on constituent town hall meetings. Problem solved

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Writing an Elegy - Rickey Laurentiis www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Psalm 150 - Jericho Brown www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57694/...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon - Gwendolyn Brooks poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-port...

[Hegel says] that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view. - John Brunner "Stand on Zanzibar"

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth A memory - Saeed Jones poets.org/poem/memory-0

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth A Brief History of Hostility - Jamaal May poets.org/poem/brief-h...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class - Clint Smith youtu.be/OGoehR_k0Xk?...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth American Income - Afaa Michael Weaver www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Heartbeats - Melvin Dixon poets.org/poem/heartbe...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Wade in the Water - Tracy K. Smith youtu.be/o8bMiPEznQA?...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over - Joy Priest poets.org/poem/denial-...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Hotbed 66 - Nikky Finney poets.org/poem/hotbed-66

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth A Place in the Country - Toi Derricotte poets.org/poem/place-c...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Frederick Douglass - Robert Hayden www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46460/...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth All the White Boys on the Eastside Loved Larry Bird - Hanif Willis Abdurraqib youtu.be/b8UsLP_1CWY?...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Coherence in Consequence - Claudia Rankine poets.org/poem/coheren...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Christopher Columbus - Mutabaruka youtu.be/XUzBEvX2PMQ?...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth truth - Gwendolyn Brooks www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54810/...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth To The Girl Who Works At Starbucks - Rudy Francisco youtu.be/BTL1yA2XJYI?...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Rosa - Rita Dove poetryarchive.org/poem/rosa/

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post poem written by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth Mother to Son - Langston Hughes poets.org/poem/mother-...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a poem by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth February 12, 1963 - Jacqueline Woodson www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/92335/...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a poem by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth BLK History Month - Nikki Giovanni www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90179/...

Each day during Black History Month, I'll post a poem by a Black author. #BlackHistoryMonth The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman youtu.be/LZ055ilIiN4?...

@ishkur.bsky.social I came across your Guide to Electronic Music yesterday in a YouTube video. It's an impressive piece of work and a great resource for someone like me who's just getting started.