Kwame Alexander Talks about Black Writers
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Kwame Alexander about This Is The Honey — an anthology of contemporary Black poets that he curated.
Kwame Alexander is an award-winning poet, a bestselling author of 38 books, most recently of “Why Fathers Cry At Night,” and now he has curated a new collection of poems by other contemporary poets, his peers. It is called “This Is The Honey,” and I’m just going to let him tell you about it. Kwame Alexander, welcome back. Thanks for joining us.
KWAME ALEXANDER: It’s so good to be here, to be with you, Michel.
MARTIN: You describe this book in various ways, and they’re all true. I mean, it’s – you called it the in-between. You called it a gathering space for Black poets to honor and celebrate. And you called it an unbridled selfie. So say more about what you had in mind when you put this together.
ALEXANDER: You know,…. (Listen Below)
