This week, Jabari (https://jabari-allen.com/)and I, Imogen Arate (https://poetsandmuses.com/imogen-arate/), discuss our respective poems, "The Soul Wishes It Could Blow on the Wound" (https://www.vqronline.org/poetry/2018/06/soul-wishes-it-could-blow-wound) and "Dying in the Dark," and desire that causes wounding.
Take a listen also for online poetry events during the week of March 23rd.
Photo of Jabari Jawan Allen by Jia Oak Baker (https://www.instagram.com/violetsky29/).
Other ways of following Jabari:
Instagram/Twitter: tenorandvehicle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jabari.jawan
Bandcamp: https://tenorandvehicle.bandcamp.com
Some of Jabari’s poetic inspirations:
#Tupac
#RitaDove
#LangstonHughes
#EduardoCCorrall
#GabrieleDAnnunzio
#NatalieDiaz
#MMcDonough
#ISJones
#ClaudiaRankine
Links to topics we touched on:
1. Definition of sonnet and #sonnetredoublé (aka, a crown of sonnets): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/sonnet
2. Background info on Notturno by Gabriele d’Annunzio: http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2012_04_018837.php
3. The #DetroitMetroTimes article on #JudgeDamonKeith: https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/04/28/detroit-judge-damon-keith-who-coined-democracy-dies-in-the-dark-dead-at-96
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