Poetry is so alive in the USA !

Poetry is a lively art in the US.
The black people used  after the emancipation this art to express their soul. Phillis Wheatley wrote her poems during slavery.

The writer Toni Morrisson said "The grace of black people is how they DO language".
Hear to Langston Hughes' poet when he is telling us "The Negro speaks of rivers" : http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15722#

I was delighted to hear Maya Angelou, 85 years old, recits some of her poems in the University of Delaware ; she was telling us again and again the hope that you see everytimes "a rainbow in the clouds".

Yesterday Rita Dove was talking about her last book Sonata mulattica, it's about the encounter between Mr Bridgetower, a Black violonist prodige with Beethoven at the end  of the 18th century ; she red a lot of poems that are inside.

Let the poem's magic spread !