Other Voices Poetry Resource

The aim is to create a shared space for teachers who wish to engage in the expansion of narratives represented in their teaching practice. Please feel free to submit content to this seed via email to holly@theorchardmontessori.com.

Readings for June 9th Lecture/Jamaican Diaspora in Brixton and influences

Kamau Braithwait

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52757/bermudas-56d2317c9465f

James Berry

Linton Kwesi Johnson

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/sonny-lettah/

Mikey Smith

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/anger-100/

The Clash

https://www.metrolyrics.com/guns-of-brixton-lyrics-the-clash.html

Roger Robinson

Historical Context: Windrush Generation / Race Relations Act / New Cross Fire / Brixton Riots / Special Patrol Group / Dub Poetry / Rudeboys: Reggae, Punk and Ska / Stephen Lawrence / Macpherson Report

Readings for June 2nd Lecture/American black poetry timeline survey

Phyllis Wheatley

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143633/a-hymn-to-the-evening

Langston Hughes

https://poets.org/poem/weary-blues

https://poets.org/poem/negro-speaks-rivers

Claude McKay

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44691/america-56d223e1ac025

Angela Jackson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56156/miz-rosa-rides-the-bus

Maya Angelou

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged-bird

Nikki Giovanni

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90180/rosa-parks

Audre Lourde

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42587/who-said-it-was-simple

bel hooks

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751/appalachian-elegy-1-6

Gil Scott Heron

(Spoken) We have a poem here, it’s called “Whitey On The Moon”
It was inspired by some whiteys on the moon
So I wanna give credit where credit is due.

Rita Dove

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43359/canary

Gwendolyn Brooks

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43320/the-ballad-of-rudolph-reed

The Beatles: Blackbird

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/blackbird-story-behind-song-beatles/

Jericho Brown

https://poets.org/poem/tradition?fbclid=IwAR09hHxC8UiMp5qK55TRdERTEnzXCwcSyxo7CLi-8OWphxki-cIAkdzs01o

Historical Contexts: Brown V. Board of Education / Little Rock Nine / Rosa Parks / Pullman Porters / March on Washington / Jim Crow Laws/ Separate But Equal Doctrine / Moon Landing / No Knock