In his poem "After Avery R. Young," the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown writes, "The blk mind / Is a continuous mind."These lines emerge for me as a guiding principle-as a mantra, even-when I consider the work of Black poetry in America, which insists upon the centrality of Black lives to the human story, and offers the terms of memory, music, conscience, and imagination that serve to counteract the many erasures and distortions riddling the prevailing narrative of Black life in this country.
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