Tags: [SFW][Poetry Reading][Sleep Aid][Long Audio][Comfort][Wholesome] Hello there! Seeing that Oct. 17th is Black Poetry Day in the States and it's Black History Month in the UK, I decided to make an hour long sleep aid of Black poetry for people to enjoy. Hope y'all enjoy! Timestamps: [0:00 - 6:07] Intro [6:11] An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ by Jupiter Hammon [9:48] No Images by William Waring Cuney [10:09] Lunar Eclipse by Audre Lorde [10:48] For Poets by Al Young [11:18] Madhouse by Calvin C. Hernton [12:12] October Journey by Margaret Walker [15:34] Here Where Coltrane Is by Michael S. Harper [16:51] Hair by Clarence Major [17:53] Beware: Do Not Read This Poem by Ishmael Reed [19:33] To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley [21:39] Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward by Gwendolyn Brooks [22:17] For Cousin John by Raymond Antrobus [23:45] Discordant Mourning by Malika Booker [24:38] Aardvark by Julia Field [25:08] Listen Children by Lucille Clifton [25:45] Sam's World by Sam Cornish [26:02] One Thousand Nine Hundred & Sixty-Eight Winters by Jaci Earley [26:29] SOS by Imamu Amiri Baraka [26:55] Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes [27:20] My Aces of Spades by Ted Joans [28: 18] The Distant Drum by Calvin C. Hernton [28:52] America by Henry Dumas [29:08] In Defense Of Black Poets by Conrad Kent Rivers [30:12] We Own the Night by Imamu Amiri Baraka [30:31] Word Poem Perhaps Worth Considering by Nikki Giovanni [30:48] Dust Bowl by Robert A. Davis [31:24] For My People by Margaret Walker [35:08] I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes [35:40] The Rebel by Mari Evans [35:53] If We Must Die by Claude McKay [36:48] Ancestors by Dudley Randall [37:33] Where Is The Black Community by Joyce Carol Thomas [38:37] Some Me Of Beauty by Carolyn M. Rodgers [39:39] Poem At 30 by Sonia Sanchez [40:21] In The Inner City by Lucille Clifton [40:48] Nat Turner by Samuel W. Allen [41:32] Sometimes I Think of Maryland by Jodi Braxton [42:57] Coffee Will Make You Black by Joyce Carol Thomas [43:28] Growing Up In The Ghetto by Taisha L. Lewis [44:31] Watching You Hold Your Hatred by Alice Walker [45:00] Don't Touch My Hair by Zetta Eliott [45:44] Self Love by Nancy Dupree [47:28] Still I Rise by Maya Angelou [49:05] October 16: The Raid by Langston Hughes [49:46] It Was A Funky Deal by Etheridge Knight [50:24] Black Girl by Malika Hadley Freydberg [51:10] The Blacker The Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas [51:45] Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield [52:39] Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson [54:22] Lineage by Margaret Walker [54:57] Let Me by Nancy Dupree [55:37] African American History by Richard Joe Bowers [56:17] Color Struck by Joyce Carol Thomas [56:55] The Nature Of This Flower Is To Bloom by Alice Walker [57:14] Will The Real Black People Please Stand by Desirée A. Barnwell [58:35] Black All Day by Raymond Richard Patterson [59:04] Weekend Glory by Maya Angelou [1:00:22] A Black Girl Talks About The United States by Wendy Ivy Wilson [1:01:54] Revolutionary Poets by Jean A. Parrish [1:02:44] Response by Bob Kaufman [1:03:08] No Ascension by Dean Atta [1:04:16] Black Lives Matter by Zetta Elliot [1:05:13] The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron [1:08:16] A Black Poetry Day by Alicia Loy Johnson