Episode 121 – Poetry with Ashanti

Ashanti has written plays, poetry, and screenplays, and has recently released Black Under – which won the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition at Black Lawrence Press. She reads two of the poems from this collection for you all to enjoy; come revel with us in her vivid imagery and stunning clarity of phrase.

• Ashanti Anderson’s home page
• Twitter @ashanticreates
• Poetry Foundation
• Black Lawrence Press

Mentions from Episode 121:

• Nalo Hopkinson
• Cassandra Lane – We Are Bridges
• Resmaa Menakem – My Grandmother’s Hands
• T.S. Eliot

Black Under

That quote Chaz was trying to remember the author for:

“Prose: words in their best order;

poetry: the best words in the best order.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge