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Category: Morning Haiku
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1. Under a sexual sky you coughed swords
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Another legend gone. And more than a legend, she was a force! Novelist, editor, professor, and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison died on August 5 at age eighty-eight. Pick any book from her bibliography, and you will be mesmerized by her command of prose, her power to conjure up the ambience and lived-in feeling of Black…
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Today is International Women’s Day, a global day to honor and celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political accomplishments of women. Observed since the early 1900s, it marks a call to action for accelerating gender equality. This year’s campaign theme, #BeBoldForChange, implores us to help build a more inclusive, gender-equal world. It also coincides with…
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By Nicholas DiSabatino | Dear Sister Sonia: We’ve never met in person, yet we’ve spoken on the phone dozens of occasions since I joined Beacon Press back in 2012. I’ve been so blessed to work with you as your publicist these past few years. It’s a strange feeling to “know” someone only via the phone.…
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We’re celebrating Valentine’s Day with a haiku sequence from poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez.
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Find out more about Morning Haiku and how you can win a poster with a poem by Sonia Sanchez.
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We invite you to join the poet Maya Angelou called, “a lion in literature’s forest,” as she lifts her voice in tribute to Dr. Dorothy Irene Height.
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As a companion to today’s post from Helene Atwan about attending a 75th birthday celebration for poet Sonia Sanchez, here is a poem from Sanchez’s forthcoming Morning Haiku, written for the poet Eugene Redmond. 4 haiku (for Eugene Redmond) 1. Blue atom poet transcribing our flesh 2. your quicksilver words waterfalling in sweet confession 3.…
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For Poetry Month, Sonia Sanchez shares a poem from her forthcoming collection of haiku.
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