ビジー・フィリップスのインスタグラム(busyphilipps) - 6月20日 02時01分

This morning, my poem a day from @poetsorg was this beautiful poem from 1907 by Priscilla Jane Thompson. I hope your feed today is flooded with different graphics and info about #juneteenth & we all maybe learn something new about history since most of us weren’t taught about the real Independence Day for ALL Americans in school. If you know/follow me, you know I’m v. into poetry(I don’t write it just love to read it!) There are obviously some incredible Black voices in poetry(Some of my favs; Nikki Giovanni💔,Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde“there are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear.”, Ntozake Shange- VERY bummed I didn’t get to see the Public’s production of For Colored Girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf) BUT I DIGRESS. Priscilla Jane Thompson was born in Cincinnati’s Rossmoyne in 1871. Her parents, John Henry and Clara Jane Thompson were born slaves in Virginia and sold to a Kentucky plantation owner before they escaped slavery on the Underground Railroad and settled in Rossmoyne where they raised thier four children to be educated and emmersed in the arts. Priscilla Jane studied to be a teacher & ended up teaching Sunday school at Zion Baptist Church in addition to being a poet and a lecturer. Her brother Aaron was also a poet who often invited his sister to perform her poetry at Emancipation Day Celebrations(Juneteenth)She self published her first book of poetry in 1900, using her brothers printer in their home. Her work inspired the Harlem Renaissance but she never got the recognition she deserves. In 1907, Priscilla released her second collection of poetry(which includes EMANCIPATION) and in the introduction Priscilla Jane wrote, “In presenting this little volume of poems to the public,(mostly of which are closely associated with a proscribed race,) the writer’s sole and earnest endeavor, is to bring to light their real life and character;and if in any of these humble and simple rhymes, a passage or thought may chance prove a medium,through which the race may be elevated, or benefited, if only in the private mind of some reader, the writer feels, that her efforts is fully repaid."

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