
This Is the Honey An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
Reviews

Favorites:
- "Quilting the Black- Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars)" - Nikki Giovanni
- "On Voting for Barack Obama with a Nat Turner T- Shirt On" - Reginald Dwayne Betts
- "After People Stop Asking About Me" - Kyle Dargan
- "This Is the Honey" - Mahogany L. Browne
- "That’s My Heart Right There" - Willie Perdomo
- "In My Rush" - Jonterri Gadson
- "As Serious as a Heart Attack" - Kalamu ya Salaam
- "The Talk" - Gayle Danley
- "How We Made You" - Kwame Alexander
- "A Twice Named Family" - Traci Dant
- "R& B Facts" - Nicholas Goodly
- "Back to the Past" - Amanda Gorman
- "Stand" - Ruth Forman
- "grief" - toni blackman
- "Easter Prayer, 2020" - A.C. Frank X Walker
- "Tell Them What You Want" - Jabari Asim
- "“I’m Rooting for Everybody Black”—Issa Rae" - Cortney Lamar Charleston
- "Elegy for Chadwick Boseman" - Len Lawson
- "Black Gold Redux (for Nina Simone)" - Jacqueline Johnson
- "San Diego and Matisse" - Clarence Major
- "The Ragged and the Beautiful" - Safiya Sinclair
- "Zebra (For My Son)" - January Gill O’Neil
Highlights

breath,
life after seven decades plus three years
is a lot of breathing. seventy three years on this
earth is a lot of taking in and giving out, is a
life of coming from somewhere and for many a bunch
of going nowhere.
-"Quality: Gwendolyn Brooks at 73" - Haki R. Madhubuti

An unfettered falcon without fear of flight
-"Queen Bess" - Kimberly A. Collins

Vocalized anger of a generation
lived in your throat.
- "Black Gold Redux (for Nina Simone)" - Jacqueline Johnson

Officer how
You know I’m dead is that I seem to bow to you
-"In the Event Of" - Shane McCrae


why so afraid to stand up?
someone will tell you
sit down?
but here is the truth
someone will always tell you
sit down
the ones we remember
kept standing
- "Stand" - Ruth Forman

There is no color on earth
that is not some child’s favorite
- "R& B Facts" - Nicholas Goodly

All mermaids are black
and only hunt sailor men
who talk that fucknoise
- "R& B Facts" - Nicholas Goodly

i have never been fullydomesticated
but i have been civilized
by women taught that the heart
is more than a muscle
a life drum whose function is
both physical blood
pumping
and spiritual longing to be embraced
- "As Serious as a Heart Attack" - Kalamu ya Salaam

There is no room on this planet for anything less than a miracle
-"This Is the Honey" - Mahogany L. Browne

I want to feel
what my lips taste like
and how his it feels
good really feels.
-"Garden of the Gods" - Ama Codjoe
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