Black History Month: Langston Hughes Community Poetry Kickoff

30 YEARS AND COUNTING: THE KICKOFF EVENT OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH On Sunday, February 2nd, from 1-3p, at the RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Walk, Providence, there will be a free and open to the public poetry reading to launch February as Black History Month. The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading also celebrates their 30th year.…

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Poem on the Miracle of Light – a poem by Michael Fine

By Michael Fine, contributing writer © 2024 by Michael Fine And we will bomb them and kill them all or we will own them and their flesh, and the flesh of their children will rot in the twisted wrecks of cars and buildings, shattered by the bombs, which they carried for us, beneath long coats,…

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Eyes of Possibility – Michael Morse

A wooden walkway leading to the ocean.

by Michael Morse, contributing writer Eyes of Possibility I look toward the horizon and imagine sharks and poisonous jellyfish, shipwrecks and skeletons, sea monsters, chemical waste, electric eels, slave ships, oil tankers and darkness. “Isn’t it beautiful, Papa?” says Kinsley. “There’s pretty fish, and underwater sand castles, big waves and little waves, mermaids and seahorses…

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