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Christine Taylor (editor)

Lift Every Voice:  An Anthology of Poetry

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​USD $12.00  (Out of stock!  More copies on the way!)
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59 pages
Copyright 2019
ISBN: 978-0-578-49203-2 


A collection of poetry by twenty-eight contemporary writers, Lift Every Voice​ pays homage to the Black National Anthem penned by James Weldon Johnson in 1900 as a celebration of the perseverance and grit necessary to liberate our voices.

Featuring work by the following writers:

Aremu Adams Adebisi • Adedayo Agarau • Anthony AW • Jai Hamid Bashir • Melanie Bell • Meagan Cahuasqui • Jason B. Crawford • Kym Cunningham • Alexandre Ferrere • helga floros • Scott Manley Hadley • Faleeha Hassan • Juleigh Howard-Hobson • Naya Jackson • Keana Águila Labra • Bobbi Lurie • Jeremy Mifsud • Anna Press • Dani Putney • Julia Edith Rios • Aleah Sato • Cecilia Savala • Tamara Sellman • Megha Sood • Lazarus Trubman • Faye Turner-Johnson • Julie Weiss • Salam Wosu

Excerpt

Trail of Blood ​by Faye Turner-Johnson
 
...we have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered...
            —“Lift Every Voice and Sing,” James Weldon Johnson, J. Rosamond Johnson   
 
            my blood bleeds African red
                                                all over the streets of America
 
            it spills forth from the soil of cotton plantations
                                    from the internment camps
                                                                        of sharecropper farms
 
                                                lynchings...cross burnings
 
                        following the north star's bloody trail to tenement slums
                                    illegitimate slayings in the concrete jungle
 
                        blood spewing from puncture wounds
                                                inflicted by officers of lawlessness
                                    ordered to eviscerate the crime of non-white skin color
 
                                                bullets to the back...severed spines...suffocation
 
            our grief...tears...mocked
                                    soothing the souls of bestial perpetrators
 
                                                underground...over-ground
 
                        a movement toward Polaris in transformation
                                    tentacles spreading...reaching farther...wider
                                               
                                                gaining strength...marching forward
 
                        to a place beyond bullets...bomb threats...fire hoses
                                                beyond tasers...beatings...pepper spray
 
                        Martin swore the promised land...the Family Stone vowed to take us higher
 
                                    if now be the time...we stand ready
                                                            to stop the blood of Africa bleeding all over this land

About the Editor

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​Christine Taylor (she/her) resides in her hometown Plainfield, New Jersey (a.k.a. “The Queen City”), and is an English teacher and part-time librarian.  She holds a B. A. in English and Pan African Studies from Drew University, an M. A. in English Literature from National University, and an M. L. I. S. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of Kissing Dynamite:  A Journal of Poetry, a humble online journal featuring poetry, art, and music, and the founder of Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press.  She also serves as assistant editor at Human/Kind Journal.
 
Her first poetry chapbook The Queen City (2019) is available through Broken Sleep Books.  Find her online at christinetayloronline.com.
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