NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Get a free Official National Poetry Month Poster. Featuring artwork by Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton.
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ART Poetry | Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”
“We Real Cool” is a poem written in 1959 by poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry. View the short film below presented by the National
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ART Quote | The Undeniable June Jordan
<p style="font-size:clamp(14.082px, 0.88rem + ((1vw – 3.2px) * 0.54), 21px);px;line-height:1.45" value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">“<em>I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name</em><br>My name is my own my own my own<br>and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this<br>but I can tell you that from now on my resistance<br>my simple and…
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ART Story | Oral History Project: Collector Patrick Diamond Tells His Romare Bearden Story
Collector Patrick Diamond Tells His Bearden Story From the Oral History Project: Tell Your Bearden Story, a new series as part of the Oral History Project. Foundation Co-Director, Diedra Harris-Kelley engages author Patrick Diamond in a conversation about his memoir, “The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art: My Journey from Frog Town, S.C. to the…
Cover Image Courtesy, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1893). Phillis Wheatley Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7329-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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