This powerful "How to Make a Poem Cry" by Darrien Case invites us to see navigating life from his perspective, his lived experiences, his feelings -- "I will never miss the years of being the only Black poem sitting in a classroom" calls me to remember the first 5 Black students and 2 Black teachers who came to my all-white high school in south Louisiana, a pilot desegregation project. And to ask, what was it like for them?
This powerful "How to Make a Poem Cry" by Darrien Case invites us to see navigating life from his perspective, his lived experiences, his feelings -- "I will never miss the years of being the only Black poem sitting in a classroom" calls me to remember the first 5 Black students and 2 Black teachers who came to my all-white high school in south Louisiana, a pilot desegregation project. And to ask, what was it like for them?
the poem is not ready for global apathy