Poem Of The Week: Monday in B-Flat

This week on Poem Of The Week, I would like to introduce African-American write, Amiri Baraka, formally known as Leroi Jones. Baraka is well known for his diversity when writing specializing in drama and fiction, as well as essays and occasionally, give musical critiques. He was the writer of various books of verse. He instructed at multiple colleges, including the University of New York at Buffalo and the University of New York at Stony Brook. He got the PEN Open Book Award, previously known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone. Also, being a known activist, he has spent a significant amount of his time during his career speaking out against black oppression and or black liberation to white racism. An example of that is his relatively short poem Monday in B-Flat. Another poem with the relevancy of yesterday’s time as well as the present day. The poem states:

I can pray
all day
& God
won’t come.

But if I call
911
The Devil
Be here

in a minute!

As said from the poem, during these trying times, it has been hard to call out for a further entity as the violence has yet to cease, and with that being said, wake up, do research and do your part to bring a solution to our long fight of oppression.