It’s National Poetry Month, and we’ve got a special episode to celebrate this brilliantly unique form of literature. Whether or not you’re a fan of poetic prose, we guarantee there’s something for you. First, we’re taking it back to AP English with a breakdown of poetic rhythm, including Shakespeare’s fav iambic pentameter, in this week’s theme, How to Read and Enjoy Poetry Correctly. Then, it’s on to our book…

Black moments distilled into easily digestible verse, this book reminds us that literature lives outside classrooms or cringy rom-coms.

It’s more than “To be or not to be” a “phenomenal woman” or a “brother to the night” or the “blues in your left thigh, trying to be the funk in your right. “Poetry is more than that. Poetry is life. This everyday, mundane, extraordinary life.

Poetry turns this life into a song.

Today’s song is DIGGING DEEP DOWN IN THOSE ROOTS Poetry of Black Hair, Culture, Resilience, Personal & Collective Trauma by Katina Horton.

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