Poetry

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Raymond Nat Turner at the UpSurge Jazz Celebration
03 Apr 2024
BAR's Poet-in-Residence will perform next week in New York City.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: If I Must Die, Refaat Alareer, 2023
13 Dec 2023
Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, a martyr of zionist state genocidal violence, has left us with a tale of resistance and hope.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Trigger Warning
22 Nov 2023
"Trigger Warning" is the latest work from BAR's poet-in-residence.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Another June 1
07 Jun 2023
Another June 1
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jon Jon Moore’s “The Calling: Poems”
16 Feb 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Our ‘democracy’
23 Jul 2021
Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne- caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who Pay nothing for water washing their waste to sewage
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Pigment of your Imagination: Black magic mascots, props and sops?
15 Jul 2021
Could the pigment of your imagination cause Black magic mascots, props, sops— Black faces in high places— to short-circuit electrical gray spaces?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
A known known…
08 Jul 2021
“…there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns—things we do not know we know…” -- an infamous War Criminal
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Twerkers of the World you might…(Or when they go low we get high?)
01 Jul 2021
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Town Crier’s Big Tooth Fund (For Drs. Rosenthal, Sapir and Ferdowsi)
23 Jun 2021
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…” —Karl Marx