April Is National Poetry Month!
AMERICA
HENRY DUMAS
POET X WRITER
If an eagle be imprisoned
On the back of a coin
And the coin is tossed into the sky,
That coin will spin,
That coin will flutter,
But the eagle will never fly.
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Sunday, April 5, 2026
Saturday, April 4, 2026
April Is National Poetry Month!
AMERICA
MAYA ANGELOU
RENOWNED ICONIC POET X AUTHOR X AUTOBIOGRAPHIST X
ESSAYIST X CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST X SINGER X DANCER
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAYA ANGELOU!
The gold of her promise
has never been minded
Her borders of justice
not clearly defined
Her crops of abundance
the fruit and the grain
Have not fed the hungry
nor eased that deep pain
Her proud declarations
are leaves on the wind
Her southern exposure
black death did befriend
Discover this country
dead centuries cry
Eract noble tablets
where none can decry
“She kills her bright future
and rapes for a sou
Then entraps her children
with legends untrue”
I beg you
Discover this country.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
April Is National Poetry Month!
GOD BLAME AMERICA!!
"GOD BLAME AMERICA," APPEARS IN A "BLACK MANIFESTO IN
JAZZ POETRY AND PROSE."
TED JOANS
POET X PAINTER X FILMMAKER X JAZZ TRUMPETER
GOD BLAME AMERICA!!
America/Miss America is over paid, over fed, over stuffed and now over here!
America/poets dont fasten their flies no more
America/ shoes can not be worn out on fingers
America/Germany is just as strong as America under arms
America/Mickey the Mouse is colored
America/whiskey contains cigarette cancer
America/I lick stamps on the wrong side
America/ nine to five aint forever, is it?
America/your fliptop box is showing
America/your women sound like sex starved Donald Ducks
America/the electric chair is too comfortable for your officials
America/I do not want to be integrated into you
America/I continue eating watermelons on TV for a fee
America/Why do I scare thee when I attempt to live free?
America/hot dogs cant be hamburgers much longer
America/Jazz has won the youth of the world
America/rhinoceroses are lonely in the zoos
America/the ghosts of Indians haunt your family nightly?
America/many of them aint really ready, are they?
America/Kosher cats closed my contract to you
America/ screaming is still valid
America/I do believe you're afraid
America/Munchen maids dance black
America/I sing Round Bout Midnight
America/Your eyes are nervous
America/your handshake's a fake
America/your mask has slipped America/your whites arent hip
America/their blues aint sad
America/your image is bad
America/surrender to the East! Forget the West! Go it
alone, that's best!
America can you hear me? America, did you hear what
I said? America??
(a voice) FUCK YOU!
America/MAY I?
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
April Is National Poetry Month!
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Monday, March 23, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Commemorating and Celebrating the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey!
SetaPhire: Mandela
What is the purpose of your life?
What are you supposed to Setaphire to?
Mandela’s journey begins
More than Setaphire’s best friend. Born Francesca Xnonymous in Kingston, Jamaica. On Francesca's 11th birthday, she’s given the truth as a gift. Her name is not Francesca Xnonymous, it’s Mandela Xnonymous. Mandela will leave her bittersweet paradise behind and move to a foreign land to attend a prestigious elite academy.
Modeled on a Black History curriculum and Marcus Garvey's philosophies. The Academy provides support and guidance as the instructors wade the chosen through the tempestuous of self-doubt to the realization that they are Black Beauty and Black Excellence!
Go SetaPhire Today!
AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
Purchase Your Copy Today!
SetaPhire
Paperback Available @BarnesAndNoble.Com
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/setaphire-nicole-hammett/1133290392
Commemorating and Celebrating the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey!
SetaPhire
The First Book In The SetaPhire Series
Quirky, Historical, Educational, and Entertaining!
SetaPhire is a coming-of-age story of an awkward African American adolescent who’s gifted an unusual present on her 11th birthday. The Truth! What is this truth? Her name is not Sapphire. It’s SetaPhire! What is SetaPhire supposed to SET A FIRE to?
The chosen journey begins on their 11th birthday, whisked away to an unfamiliar town and an unknown academy modeled on a Black History curriculum and Marcus Garvey’s philosophies. The academy provides support and guidance. As the instructors wade the chosen through the tempestuous of self-doubt and to the realization that they are Black Beauty and Black Excellence.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
April Is National Poetry Month!
GET UP AND DO
MARCUS GARVEY
You sit and quarrel all your life,
And blame the moving world at
large:
You fail to enter in the strife,
To sail in
fortune's happy barge.
Get up my man and do the "stuff"
That leads to blazing
glory's fame:
Hold on, and be like good Macduff,
And damn
the man who'd foil your name.
1935
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
April Is National Poetry Month!
GO AND WIN
MARCUS GARVEY
Ye Negroes of the world, another day has come,
To test your
worth of racial character;
Your lives and homes, you see, are
threatened everywhere;
The time is now for you to do and then to
dare.
Your youth must struggle with the facts as they are seen,
And
blaze the trail for home and life redeemed:
Your hope, I claim,
is in the courage of the time,
So go ye forth and win the battle
that's sublime.
1933
Monday, April 7, 2025
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
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New Edition
Purchase Your Copy of BLACK CROSS Today!
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BLACK CROSS
Stage Play by Nicole Hammett
Cover Illustrated by Nicole Hammett
A tie-in with the SETAPHIRE SERIES!
BLACK CROSS
The New Negro Movement. Back to Africa Movement. Harlem 1921. Home of the Black family. Black Cross tells the story of the becoming of Alice-Paul Black. Wife of Rufus Black, mother of Willie and Junior Black, daughter of Mamie Johnson.
Born a dark-skinned Negro woman.
Disallowed the right to dream.
Black Cross tells the story of Alice-Paul Black’s willingness to no longer accept who her husband allows her to be. Who her mother tells her she needs to be. Who the world says that she is. It took a long time for Alice-Paul Black to find her voice. She’s going to tell you who she ain’t.
Saturday, June 1, 2024
GO SETAPHIRE TODAY!
New Edition
Purchase Your Copy of BLACK CROSS Today!
Paperback Now Available @BarnesAndNoble.Com
BLACK CROSS
Stage Play by Nicole Hammett
Cover Illustrated by Nicole Hammett
A tie-in with the SETAPHIRE SERIES!
BLACK CROSS
The New Negro Movement. Back to Africa Movement. Harlem 1921. Home of the Black family. Black Cross tells the story of the becoming of Alice-Paul Black. Wife of Rufus Black, mother of Willie and Junior Black, daughter of Mamie Johnson.
Born a dark-skinned Negro woman.
Disallowed the right to dream.
Black Cross tells the story of Alice-Paul Black’s willingness to no longer accept who her husband allows her to be. Who her mother tells her she needs to be. Who the world says that she is. It took a long time for Alice-Paul Black to find her voice. She’s going to tell you who she ain’t.
GO SETAPHIRE TODAY!
Paperback Available @BarnesAndNoble.Com
Purchase Your Copy of SetaPhire: Mandela
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/setaphire-nicole-hammett/1140532426?ean=9781668587218
Commemorating and Celebrating the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey!
SetaPhire: Mandela
What is the purpose of your life?
What are you supposed to Setaphire to?
Mandela’s journey begins
More than Setaphire’s best friend. Born Francesca Xnonymous in Kingston, Jamaica. On Francesca's 11th birthday, she’s given the truth as a gift. Her name is not Francesca Xnonymous, it’s Mandela Xnonymous. Mandela will leave her bittersweet paradise behind and move to a foreign land to attend a prestigious elite academy.
Modeled on a Black History curriculum and Marcus Garvey's philosophies. The Academy provides support and guidance as the instructors wade the chosen through the tempestuous of self-doubt to the realization that they are Black Beauty and Black Excellence!
Go SetaPhire Today!
AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
Purchase Your Copy Today!
SetaPhire
Paperback Available @BarnesAndNoble.Com
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/setaphire-nicole-hammett/1133290392
Commemorating and Celebrating the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey!
SetaPhire
The First Book In The SetaPhire Series
Quirky, Historical, Educational, and Entertaining!
SetaPhire is a coming-of-age story of an awkward African American adolescent who’s gifted an unusual present on her 11th birthday. The Truth! What is this truth? Her name is not Sapphire. It’s SetaPhire! What is SetaPhire supposed to SET A FIRE to?
The chosen journey begins on their 11th birthday, whisked away to an unfamiliar town and an unknown academy modeled on a Black History curriculum and Marcus Garvey’s philosophies. The academy provides support and guidance. As the instructors wade the chosen through the tempestuous of self-doubt and to the realization that they are Black Beauty and Black Excellence.
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