Celebration by Mari Evans - Poem for the Sixth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Sixth Sunday of Epiphany, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Psalm 119:1-8
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Celebration
Mari Evans
SNIPPET:
…
And we be bringing, each of us
the music of ourselves to wrap
the other in
…
Mari Evans (1919-2017) was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist associated with the Black Arts Movement. Evans received grants and awards including a lifetime achievement award from the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation. Her poetry is known for its lyrical simplicity and the directness of its themes. She also wrote nonfiction and edited Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation (Doubleday, 1984), an important and timely critical anthology devoted to the work of fifteen writers. (via Wikipedia)