Sing a Black Girl Song: 5 Books by Black Women Poets You Should Know
Hey poet!
In this episode, bridgette takes inspiration from Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf and compiles a list of five collections by Black women that you should know.
Listen in as bridgette chooses one collection from each of the past five years and explains why you should know it.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
🔸 Even the Saints Audition by Raych Jackson
🔸 Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
🔸 I’m Writing to Tell You by Jaha Zainabu
🔸 suddenly we by Evie Shockley
🔸 Woke Up No Light by Leila Mottley
Bonus! Fiction by Leila Mottley Nightcrawling
