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Etheridge Knight

Etheridge Knight is considered one of the leading voices in the Black Arts Movement, writing his poetry at the intersection of his own challenging personal experience and the larger ordeals facing African Americans in

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by Etheridge Knight (1933–91)

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Making jazz swing in
Seventeen syllables AIN'T
No square poet's job.

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Poets Book of Days

April 19

Lord Byron died, 1824

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What poet's epitaph reads, "The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. In my beginning is my end... In my end is my beginning."

Answer

T.S. Eliot. The last lines come from the "'East Coker" section of "Four Quartets."

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