Post 9wtZ4BbAk8Fat5ePSa by wakingrufus@bigshoulders.city
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 (DIR) Post #9wtZ4BbAk8Fat5ePSa by wakingrufus@bigshoulders.city
       2019-01-03T23:03:08Z
       
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       I am reading "A People's History of Chicago" by Kevin Coval. My goal is to read one poem per day, and post some notes about each poem. I will post all notes as a reply to this toot.
       
 (DIR) Post #9wtZ4CKC2kGN8iiMdM by wakingrufus@bigshoulders.city
       2020-07-09T02:15:54Z
       
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       This poem is about the murder of a Black boy, killed by white swimmers after drifting into the "white beach". This sparked the Red Summer of 1919. Eve Ewing has an excellent poem collection on this https://eveewing.com/1919/ . It is so fitting that as I chose to pick up this book again at this time, this is the first poem I read. Not much has changed since 1919.