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@angelgravely.blacksky.app

This month I finished a book of poetry by Jameka Williams. Share your thoughts on this book and check out mine on my blog! #BookSky #BookSkyChat #BlackPoets #BookReviews

October 2026 Book Review

This month I finished a book of poetry by Jameka Williams. Share your thoughts on this book and check out mine on my blog!

angelgravely.com

November 1, 2026 at 2:19 AM

🅰️Washington M.A. artist | author | activist 🖇️

@arw-raw.bsky.social

NEW • #HAIKU4U
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Mama resisted
her mother before her did—
I, their refusal

A calendar of twelve #haiku
twelve original designed
#photography #portrait #art
of diverse Black #Women
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October 29, 2026 at 7:11 PM

🅰️Washington M.A. artist | author | activist 🖇️

@arw-raw.bsky.social

SŌLSEED Nov 2026
#SkyPoets #Writers #Poets

A #SŌLSËËD Joint 🌻
#PoetryCommunity #Prompt
“A prompt, a pulse, a purpose
of the soul —to water a seed.

Join #November Monthly #Prompter Use word or theme
#poetry #art #writing
Please Tag: #Solseed + word

MONTHLY PROMPT #SÖLSËËD | NOVEMBER #PROMPTS

November Prompt Words
NOV 1-5 • HARVEST
NOV 20-25 • FALLBACK
week theme: abundance
week theme: return
NOV 5-10 • GRATITUDE
week theme: thanks
NOV 25-30 • SOLSTICE
week theme: renewal
NOV 10-20 • SEASONAL
week theme: transition

Use the Prompt / Theme to Create:

#poetry • #art • #photography • #writing #blackwriters #blackpoets
#prompters #prompt #skypoets

TAG:
#Solseed + the prompt word/theme

October 31, 2026 at 12:00 PM

🅰️Washington M.A. artist | author | activist 🖇️

@arw-raw.bsky.social

#Haiku4U — 🪷
Monthly #Prompter
“Few words. Infinite light.”

#November #prompt: invites
#poets #writers #artists
#creatives #haiku #tanka
#senryū or #haiban Pick
whatever prompt you like.

#Share 🪷 #Repost
Please ! Tag #Haiku4u

MONTHLY PROMPT #HAIKUYU #NOVEMBER #PROMPT
#POETRYCOMMUNITY

November Prompt Words

NOV 1-5
HARVEST
• NOV 15-20 • COZY
week theme: harvest
week theme: cozy

• NOV 5-10
AUTUMN
week theme: fall

• NOV 20-25
• CHANGE
week theme: transition

NOV 10-15 • GRATITUDE week theme: thankfulness

• NOV 25-30 • #THANKSGIVING week theme: thanksgiving

Use the Prompt / Theme to Create:
#haiku #poetry • #imagery • #reflection • #blackpoets #arw-raw #blackwriters #writersofsky

TAG:
#Haiku4u

November 1, 2026 at 8:23 PM

Inspired Kenya

@inspiredkenya.bsky.social

Celebrating June Jordan. Poet, activist, educator, and fearless champion of justice. Her powerful words continue to inspire conversations about identity, love, freedom, and equality.
#JuneJordan #BlackPoets #Poetry #LiteraryLegacy #BlackLiterature

poets.org/poet/june-jo...

June Jordan

June Jordan was born in New York, New York, on July 9, 1936, and attended Barnard College. She was an activist, poet, writer, and teacher, as well as a prominent figure in the civil rights, feminist, ...

poets.org

October 31, 2026 at 2:28 AM

🅰️Washington M.A. artist | author | activist 🖇️

@arw-raw.bsky.social

#PoetryCommunity #Poem
#PoemsAbout #hollow
#Prompters #Poetry #Art
#BlueSkyPoetry #BlackPoets
A #Solseed Joint #Fall

Griege backgrounded end against Black words. A #Poem set inside.

Time To Rake The Lawn

The yard is full of what
the wind could not carry
a broken limb rests in
the grass, still angled
toward the dog house.
Crisp leaves have
gathered in bunches
against the fence—
the ground looks
newly exposed—
as if the storm had
taken a hand to
everything green
and left hurriedly
before explaining
why the fall has come.

#ARW-RAW #BackWriters
#BlackSkyRelay #SkyPoets

October 25, 2026 at 1:14 PM

🅰️Washington M.A. artist | author | activist 🖇️

@arw-raw.bsky.social

#inkmine #many #prompt
#vss365 #taper #poetry
A #Solseed Joint #sequence
#poetrycommunity #prompters
#blueskypoetry #art #arw-raw

Griege background against black font inside a poem:

I pray to all the places, retuming where we were still becoming followed the river through its colder tums; remembering how we once believed we could leave the ground-breaking the trees around us altering an old path narrowed by years we walked over piles of broken leaves sinking, underfoot-slowly the distance widening between who I was, and who I had been with you circling-

#blacksyrelay #blackwriters
#blackpoets #solseed

October 25, 2026 at 2:50 PM

The African American Museum at the England Manor

@aam-em.bsky.social

Essential Black Authors to Read | The Daily Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i21nLBW0dU

#BlackPoetryDay #BlackHistory365 #JupiterHammon #OnThisDay #AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #BlackPoets #BlackLiterature #Poetry #PreservingOurStory #TheEnglandManor

Essential Black Authors to Read | The Daily Show

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October 18, 2026 at 12:03 AM

Ebony QuShae'

@ebonyqushae.substack.com

Fall + jazz + poetry = a whole vibe. 🍂🎷📖
📌 a.co/d/00GaX5ad

#BlackPoets #JazzMusic #PoetryCommunity #HarshTruths #EbonyQuShae

September 24, 2026 at 12:40 AM

Gina Murrell

@ginamurrell1.blacksky.app

Tongo Eisen-Martin at the podium. (Shortly before I moved from the Bay Area and returned east in 2021, Eisen-Martin had just become poet laureate of San Francisco.) Today’s memorial gathering was emotional, cathartic, and celebratory—and a great tribute to David Henderson. #poetry #BlackPoets #NYC

Tongo Eisen-Martin at the church podium, reciting a powerful work at “Praise Day for David Henderson.” Sept 19, 2026.

September 20, 2026 at 3:23 AM

Gina Murrell

@ginamurrell1.blacksky.app

Poets and performers read David Henderson’s words, and family and friends of Henderson shared their memories of him. Throughout, a slideshow of photographs of Henderson with friends, family members, and colleagues played continuously above the stage, serving as a backdrop. #poetry #BlackPoets #NYC

A friend of David Henderson stands at the church podium and shares her memories of him as a slideshow of photos of Henderson plays in the background. Sept 19, 2026.

September 20, 2026 at 3:06 AM

Ebony QuShae'

@ebonyqushae.substack.com

Harsh Truths is a poetry collection about the things we know, avoid, postpone, survive, and eventually have to face.

Some truths comfort you.
These aren’t those.

Harsh Truths
A Poetry Collection by Ebony QuShae’
a.co/d/0gJvSGQU

#PoetryCollection #PoetryBook #BlackPoets

September 18, 2026 at 6:17 PM

Eric M. Murphy

@ericmmurphy.bsky.social

"Gwendolyn Brooks"
Don L. Lee

she doesn’t wear
costume jewelry
& she knew that walt disney
was/is making a fortune off
false-eyelashes and that time magazine is the
authority on the knee/grow.
her makeup is total-real.

a negro english instructor called her:
“a fine negro poet.”
a whi-te critic said:
“she’s a credit to the negro race.”
somebody else called her:
“a pure negro writer.”
johnnie mae, who’s a senior in high school said:
“she & langston² are the only negro poets we’ve read in school and i
understand her.”
pee wee used to carry one of her poems around in his back pocket;
the one about being cool,³ that was befo pee wee
was cooled by a cop’s warning shot.

into the sixties
a word was born . . . . . . . . . . BLACK
& with black came poets
& from the poet’s ball points came:
black doubleblack purpleblack blueblack beenblack was
black daybeforeyesterday blackerthan ultrablack super
black blackblack yellowblack niggerblack blackwhi-te-man
blackerthanyoueverbes ¼ black umblack coldblack clear
black my momma’s blackerthanyourmomma pimbleblack fall
black so black we can’t even see you black on black in
black by black technically black mantanblack winter
black coolblack 360degreesblack coalblack midnight
black black when it’s convenient rustyblack moonblack
black starblack summerblack electronblack spaceman
black shoeshineblack jimshoeblack underwearblack ugly
black auntjimmamblack, uncleben’srice black williebest
black blackisbeautifulblack i justdiscoverblack negro
black unsubstanceblack.

and everywhere the
lady “negro poet”
appeared the poets were there.
they listened & questioned
& went home feeling uncomfortable/unsound & soundtogether

they read/re-read/wrote & re-wrote
& came back the next time to tell the
lady “negro poet”
how beautiful she was/is & how she had helped them
& she came back with:
how necessary they were and how they’ve helped her.
the poets walked & as space filled the vacuum between them & the
lady “negro poet”
u could hear one of the blackpoets say:
“bro, they been callin that sister by the wrong name.”

September 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM

Finishing Line Press

@finishinglinepress.bsky.social

Check out this book review of Gary Copeland Lilley’s new FLP book SPIRIT IN THE DARK. southbroadwaypress.org/2026/08/05/b... #books #poetry #bookreview #blackpoets

Book Review: Spirit in the Dark by Gary Copeland Lilley

A book review of Gary Copeland Lilley’s new collection, Spirit in the Dark, available now through Finishing Line Press.

southbroadwaypress.org

August 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM

Shon-Lueiss

@shonlueiss.bsky.social

Four poems inspired by Taíno mythology and what means to be a parent.

#Poetry #Taino #PuertoRico #WritingCommunity #BlackPoets #Poetrysky

open.substack.com/pub/shonluei...

When tradition is resistance (and poetry).

Four poems inspired by Taíno mythology and what it means to be a parent.

open.substack.com

May 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Karl MyWinePal

@mywinepal.bsky.social

The People's Poet, born in 1901, Langston Hughes, wrote about the black experience in the USA. I look forward to reading his selected early #poems. Also try reading poems by Nikki Giovanni, who also passed away a few weeks ago.

#blackpoets
Tag a friend that likes to read #poetry.

January 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM

J🪐eda

@planetjae.bsky.social

If you’ve ever fallen in love before loving yourself, give this a read. I hope you like :’)
#blacksky #addtoblacksky #blackpoets #addtoblackpoets
This is Remnants (Aura) by: Me🫶🏽