I recently found this tidbit from “The Underlying Strife” by Calvin Hernton of the Umbra workship in the Black Arts Movement:<\/p>\n
A poet is not a plaything<\/p>\n
A poet is a perpetual struggle … an eternal<\/p>\n
Cause-of-the-People<\/p>\n
Toward the self-liberation of a wilderness dream<\/p>\n
Deep-frozen in a profit-making civilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently found this tidbit from “The Underlying Strife” by Calvin Hernton of the Umbra workship in the Black Arts Movement: A poet is not a plaything A poet is a perpetual struggle … an eternal Cause-of-the-People Toward the self-liberation … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,28,135,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-black-arts-movement","category-calvin-hernton","category-literature","category-umbra-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}