Happy birthday! (March 30th) Tracy Chapman:
Tracy and Alice camping mid-Nineties. Photo by Tracy Chapman Happy birthday! (March 30th) Blessed one Who carries ancestors In your voice- As extraordinary And faithful To your course As the sun.~aw
Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24
Feliz Cumpleaños Mumia Abu-Jamal/ Abril 24 Happy Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal/ April 24 What have you given us to accompany our despair? A life lived to the full In a cage too small for…
WINNIE MANDELA WE LOVE YOU
En Español The name “Lucy,” which appears in the following poem, was given by paleoanthropologists to the fossilized skeleton of the most ancient, recognizably human ancestral figure ever found. A female being…
The Long Road Home Poem for Muhammad Ali
The Long Road Home ©2016 by Alice Walker I am beginning to comprehend the mystery of the gift of suffering. It is true as some have said that it is a crucible in…
Wedding Ceremony: Marrying Good Men (from The Cushion in the Road) Spring 2013
Marrying Good Men A month ago, I married two good men. To each other. You can imagine how this must have shocked my grandparents, with whom I continue to have a close relationship,…
Goodnight, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning
Walker’s third collection of poetry takes its title from her mother’s farewell words to her father at his funeral. These words are the frame for a volume whose major theme is the connections…
Revolutionary Petunias
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls…
ONCE (1968)
This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965,…
