Adrian Matejka

Apr 19, 2024 | poets.org | Adrian Matejka |Deborah A. Miranda |Nate Klug |Didn’T Tilt

Find and share the perfect poems. Until around sundown, the survivinglilies in the yard stay wide open,like the window of a car passingon a hot day. No music from the flowers,but they smell like somebody’s fragrantsoap unwrapped on a dish edgedwith daisies. All those smells expressingthemselves haphazardly like a bandtrying to tune up.

May 29, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Adrian Matejka

This month, we celebrate the birthdays of Gwendolyn Brooks and Lucille Clifton and remember the transition of June Jordan. For Poem of the Day, I have selected a series of poems from Black women and femme-identifying poets and have also included a supplementary list of poems from women of the African diaspora at the end of this post. These poems illustrate intimate spaces of care and cultivate a commitment to radical change.