John Lee Clark

Listen to Simone Person read “Awkwafina Clarifies That She’s Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)” @princxporkchop #PoemADay megaphone.link/POETS7930521721

Read today’s #PoemADay: “Awkwafina Clarifies That She’s Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)” by Simone Person @princxporkchop poets.org/poem/awkwafina…

“I created this poem as part of a larger project detailing—through an imagined lens of non-Black celebrities—how anti-Blackness operates as social currency.” —Simone Person @princxporkchop #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/awkwafina…

we should all be so lucky to be this well-loved. we’ll live forever tendered underneath the warmth of her sun. she is rebuilding our house in a better glory. —Simone Person @princxporkchop #PoemADay poets.org/poem/awkwafina…

@princxporkchop @POETSorg Thank you for creating new idioms, forms, realms. Fabling, realing, magicing!

“I thought: we disabled people need more poems about love between activists. So I wrote this one.” —The Cyborg Jillian Weise #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/snow-glob…

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@jillianweise Over the snow glove moon to have your poem out today!

across the nation accessible and were arrested and were arrested again this time for asking the question “May we speak to Senator Gardner?” and were jailed for three days and three nights —The Cyborg Jillian Weise #PoemADay poets.org/poem/snow-glob…

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“[Annie Charlotte] Dalton presents [us with] an embattled, misunderstood, and assaulted figure [. . .] and enters into the fray not only in her defense but also by joining her in the self-defense she had already initiated.” —John Lee Clark #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/marie-bas…

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Of the untruths told in vain; Of the voiceless bird and beast, Of the songless, laughless feast, Of the mind to madness spurred, Never a word! —Annie Charlotte Dalton #PoemADay poets.org/poem/marie-bas…

To me thy lips are mute, but when I gaze Upon thee in thy perfect loveliness,— No trait that should not be—no lineament To jar with the exquisite harmony Of Beauty’s music, breathing to the eyes, I pity those who think they pity me; —James Nack #PoemADay poets.org/poem/music-bea…

“Published in 1827 [. . .] this poem is the first of an enduring trope in Deaf poetry, one that expresses disdain for, even mockery of, hapless and ignorant hearing people.” —John Lee Clark #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/music-bea…

“With the veil between life and death being so necessarily thin for me on account of my disease, I find myself contemplating legacy quite often, and not always with a pure heart.” —Brian Koukol @BrianKoukol #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/necromanc…

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