Porsha Olayiwola, the newly appointed poet laureate of Boston

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www. porshaolayiwola .com/ bio

Porsha Olayiwola is the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion. Black, poet, queer-dyke, hip-hop feminist, womanist: Porsha is a native of Chicago who now resides in Boston where she organizes, writes and teaches.

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That is one ugly bull sheboon

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Remember when we used to have real poets, like Robert Frost and Robert Lowell? Neither do I.

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I always thought poetry was real fruity. Never have I came across anything good.

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https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/08/10/envying-the-cruel-falcon-the-anti-liberal-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-part-one-of-two/

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/08/12/envying-the-cruel-falcon-the-anti-liberal-poetry-of-robinson-jeffers-part-two-of-two/

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@BasedBemidji That HP Lovecraft poem about why niggers were made is good.

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Also well worth recommending to ethno-nationalists (hey there @BasedBemidji) are the so-called “Child Ballads”.

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In Flanders Fields

John McCrae, 1872 - 1918

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead; short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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I almost chose Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young”.

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http://www.petloss.com/poems/maigrp/housedog.htm

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http://www.davidgorman.com/4Quartets/4-gidding.htm