Every ten years since 1994, Black poets from all over the world gather at the Furious Flower Poetry Conference. In 2024, 10 poets were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards. We bring their voices, poems, and stories to you in Furious Flower IV: The Worlds of Black Poetry. Hosted by Lauren K. Alleyne, Executive Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University.
Furious Flower IV: The Worlds of Black Poetry
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Every ten years since 1994, Black poets from all over the world gather at the Furious Flower Poetry Conference. In 2024, 10 poets were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards. We bring their voices, poems, and stories to you in Furious Flower IV: The Worlds of Black Poetry. Hosted by Lauren K. Alleyne, Executive Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University.
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Recent Episodes
November 20, 2024
“A poet of two centuries”
E. Ethelbert Miller and Fred Joiner on who gets to be a Black writer, giving birth to a new generation of critics, and baseball. Mentioned in this episode: In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry edited by E. Ethelbert Miller Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century edited by E. Ethelbert Miller “Winter in America” by Gil Scott-Heron “Party For Your Right To Fight” by Public Enemy “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” by James Brown “Today’s News” by Elizabeth Alexander Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writings edited by Quincy Troupe and Rainer Schulte “Girlfriend” by Lori Tsang Dynamite Voices: Black Poets of the 1960s by Haki R. Madhubuti “Up and Down” by E. Ethelbert Miller
November 13, 2024
“You didn’t know you would need this poem”
Harryette Mullen and Chet’la Sebree on hidden histories, the plagues we live through, and (ahem) “dick’s tight hat band.” Mentioned in this episode: “Elliptical” from Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway Olio by Tyehimba Jess The Age of Phillis by Honorée Fannone Jeffers “Hotter Than July” from Regaining Unconsciousness by Harryette Mullen and Hotter Than July by Stevie Wonder “Elegy for What Once Slept in a Cage” from Teeth Never Sleep by Ángel García
November 6, 2024
“If that’s not cool, I don’t know what is”
Kwame Dawes and Ama Codjoe on young African poets finding their voices, the mistakes of English classes, and what Lionel Messi has to do with writing poetry.
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