black studies
cuz willie perdomo
by Kevin Coval
black is the color of my true love's hair
black is the color of all i care, black records
black stax, black bodies stacked, shack(il)led
by o’neil english. speak back, black backs
lashed raised scars, Africa attack, black oil
black guns in the hands of blue, black foils.
blues black serum, black sermons, black sirs
ma’ams, black surgeons, eugenics ebonics
black persons, black eye-susan, black gruesome
most fear when black fester, black grew sons
spores, black moors, black muslim round black
Ka’bah tours, what black for? black spades
dig black earth, black words i learned
to speak
first
KEVIN COVAL is the author of everyday people and slingshots (a hip-hop poetica), named a Book
of the Year finalist by the American Library Association. He has performed in 40 states, on four
continents in seven countries and four seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Co-Founder of Louder
Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, the largest youth poetry festival in the world,
Coval teaches at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
by Kevin Coval
black is the color of my true love's hair
black is the color of all i care, black records
black stax, black bodies stacked, shack(il)led
by o’neil english. speak back, black backs
lashed raised scars, Africa attack, black oil
black guns in the hands of blue, black foils.
blues black serum, black sermons, black sirs
ma’ams, black surgeons, eugenics ebonics
black persons, black eye-susan, black gruesome
most fear when black fester, black grew sons
spores, black moors, black muslim round black
Ka’bah tours, what black for? black spades
dig black earth, black words i learned
to speak
first
KEVIN COVAL is the author of everyday people and slingshots (a hip-hop poetica), named a Book
of the Year finalist by the American Library Association. He has performed in 40 states, on four
continents in seven countries and four seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Co-Founder of Louder
Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, the largest youth poetry festival in the world,
Coval teaches at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.