“To write a blues song/ is to regiment riots/ and pluck gems from graves.”

“To write a blues song/ is to regiment riots/ and pluck gems from graves.”

Etheridge Knight’s magnificent Haiku sequence, courtesy of The Poetry Foundation.

 

“To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.”

 

 

etheridge knight at stone soup 4-25-87 (poetry reading)

etheridge knight at stone soup 4-25-87 (poetry reading)

Etheridge Knight reading at Stone Soup from 1987.

Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane”

Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane”

From Poets.Org

Full text of Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane.”