To Prisoners by Gwendolyn Brooks - Poem for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C
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 Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year C can be found here)
To Prisoners
Gwendolyn Brooks
to accompany the lectionary reading: Acts 16:16-34
SNIPPET:
I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark.
Dark gardening
in the vertigo cold.
in the hot paralysis.
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. (via Wikipedia).