American Academy of Poets - Fred L. Joiner https://www.fredjoiner.com Poet Laureate of Carrboro, NC 2019 -2022 / 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:31:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 27648365 Gratitude #1 https://www.fredjoiner.com/2020/02/28/gratitude-1/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:25:46 +0000 https://www.fredjoiner.com/?p=2054 Today I sat on a panel, called “Blacker than a hundred midnights”: Public History and Memory and the Souls of Blackfolk in the South”  with Nikky Finney, Randall Kenan, and Dr. Danielle Purifoy, moderated by Dr. Jennifer Larson here at UNC-Chapel Hill. It was a distinct honor to be a part of the conversation in …

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I started my initial comments with this poem by Lucille Clifton:

why some people be mad at me sometimes By Lucille Clifton

which really set the tone for everything else I said. You really cannot go wrong with Ms. Lucille, her poetry just keeps on giving.

I have more gratitude to share, but I am going to let this sit here a moment.

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]]> 2054 Gratitude #0 https://www.fredjoiner.com/2019/05/07/gratitude-0/ Tue, 07 May 2019 17:27:22 +0000 https://www.fredjoiner.com/?p=1914 Over the years it has been so cool to see the work of so many poets who are friends, who I have met or whose work I just love on The Academy of American Poets website (and Poetry Foundation too). To quite honest, I never thought anything I had written would find itself there. So …

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Over the years it has been so cool to see the work of so many poets who are friends, who I have met or whose work I just love on The Academy of American Poets website (and Poetry Foundation too).

To quite honest, I never thought anything I had written would find itself there. So you can imagine how beside myself I am with gratitude and jot that 2 of my poems Austerity and Currency are now on The Academy of American Poets’ website.
One of those poems, Currecncy is included in The Next Verse Poets Mixtape Volume One: the 4 X 4 (Central Square Press) which you purchase here.

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