Black Arts Movement

Black Arts Movement

Poets in the Black Arts Movement include:

Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver, Jayne Cortez, Harold Cruse, Mari Evans, Hoyt Fuller, Nikki Giovanni, Lorraine Hansberry, Gil-Scott Heron, Maulana Ron Karenga, Etheridge Knight, Adrienne Kennedy, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Quincy Troupe, and John Alfred Williams.

I am currently reading poetry by many of the above poets in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Here is one from the man pictured above:

A Poem for Speculative Hipsters

Amiri Baraka

He had got, finally,

to the forest

of motives. There were no

owls, or hunters. No Connie Chatterleys

resting beautifully

on their backs, having casually

brought socialism

to England.

Only ideas,

and their opposites

Like,

he was really

nowhere.