By Patricia Thrushart, Cofounder, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA “History repeats itself.” We’ve all heard this adage, along with Winston Churchill’s warning that “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Spanish philosopher George Santayana is usually given credit for another version of this aphorism: “Those who cannot remember the […]

By Patricia Thrushart, Cofounder, Poets Against Racism & Hate USA Poetry is having a moment. The genre often perceived as obtuse and elitist has been rescued from its ivory-towered prison and reintroduced to the world by a generation of poets as comfortable with slams as sonnets. Spoken word, blackout, performance, insta—these are the styles that

Here we are at the end of another February, the month designated as Black History Month … as if the history of African American art, culture, philosophy, writing, and activism can be encapsulated in a month (the shortest of the year, for that matter) … as if Black history is somehow separate and distinct from