Source: Poets House
Photo by: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Earlier this week The New York Times had an interesting article for those of you interested in poetry and or African-American culture. The Time’s article, The Dark Room Collective: Where Black Poetry Took Wing, was really interesting.
Founded in 1987, this group that formed here in Boston after attending the funeral of James Baldwin in NYC brought together black writers and artists to work, bond and unintentionally nurtured a cultural movement all from a 3-story Victorian house at 31 Inman Street in Cambridge, MA – at least that is how The New York Times tell it. The article says that the collective proved to be a boom in African-American poetry “arguably as aesthetically significant in the writing world as the work of the Beat Generation, The New York School, the Fugitives, The Black Arts Movement and even the Harlem Renaissance.”
Do you love poetry? Are you interested in African-American culture? You may want to check out this article from the NYT.
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