Black Art (poem)
Poem by Amiri Baraka / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Black Art" is a poem written by African-American poet Amiri Baraka. It was written in 1965 after the assassination of Malcolm X, soon after the poet (formerly LeRoi Jones) had taken on a new name.The poem issued a clarion call for art by and for Black people:
We want a black poem. And a
Black World.
Let the world be a Black Poem
And Let All Black People Speak This Poem
Silently
or LOUD
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The poem sparked the beginning of the Black Arts Movement in poetry.[1] "Black Art" was published in The Liberator in January 1966, and subsequently re-published in numerous anthologies.[2][3]