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.
Mentions from Episode 121:
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