Morning Haiku
Poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages, from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.
Sonia Sanchez's collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds of Max Roach "exploding in the universe," the "blue hallelujahs" of the Philadelphia Murals, and the voice of Odetta "thundering out of the earth." Sanchez sings the praises of contemporaries whose poetic alchemy turns "words into gems": Maya Angelou, Richard Long, and Toni Morrison. And she pays homage to peace workers and civil rights activists from Rosa Parks and…
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January 25, 2011Sonia Sanchez is an award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. She is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku.
Homegirls & Handgrenades
Sonia Sanchez
Collected Poems
Sonia Sanchez
Morning Haiku
Sonia Sanchez
Shake Loose My Skin
Sonia Sanchez
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Sonia Sanchez
Does Your House Have Lions?
Sonia Sanchez
Wounded in the House of a Friend
Sonia Sanchez
Paper Boat
Margaret Atwood
Signal Infinities
Melanie Siebert
woke up no light
Leila Mottley
The Seventh Town of Ghosts
Faith Arkorful
shima
sho yamagushiku
Empires of the Everyday
Anna Lee-Popham
The Knot of My Tongue
Zehra Naqvi
A Year of Last Things
Michael Ondaatje
From the Lost and Found Department
Joy Kogawa
After That
Lorna Crozier
Falling Back in Love with Being Human
Kai Cheng Thom
Found
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Light
Souvankham Thammavongsa
Small Arguments
Souvankham Thammavongsa