We asked you to let us know the poems you find the most inspirational, and you replied in abundance! Here are some of our top picks, and you can read Anirudth’s World Poetry Day post here.
It’s perhaps no surprise that the wonderful Maya Angelou’s name popped up more than once:
@rights_info This poem fits the bill. And it's great. https://t.co/GwUtD7nv00
— Clare (@ClareToHere) March 19, 2016
@rights_info Caged Bird by Maya Angelou is such a powerful poem about the cruelty of discrimination
— Megan (@EarlyMegski) March 21, 2016
@AdamWagner1 @rights_info Equality by Maya Angelou? https://t.co/UXh0f5ITK5
— Angela Patrick (@Angela__Patrick) March 20, 2016
As did the great Langston Hughes:
@rights_info @AdamWagner1 'I, too, sing America' by Langston Hughes. pic.twitter.com/3QMFJDpL25
— Daniel Collins (@DanielCollins85) March 20, 2016
@rights_info I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
— MissBBB (@BeireannBuanBua) March 19, 2016
And there were many more brilliant suggestions…
@rights_info great piece with @georgethepoet about protest poetry – https://t.co/hrTk1qGqdO
— Yoav Segal (@yo_segal) March 20, 2016
Watch George The Poet in action here.
@AlisonJBurge @rights_info Alison is right-BZ is the one! Wrote poems while working with Michael Mansfield QC etc… https://t.co/WyM94Uo7dt
— Gemma Blythe (@Gemma_Blythe) March 19, 2016
Check out Benjamin Zephaniah’s poems.
@rights_info check out @DeanAtta. Awesome.
— Shona Gibbs (@och_shona) March 19, 2016
Here’s Dean Atta.
@rights_info @AdamWagner1 any of the poems in Claudia Rankine's collection Citizen: An American Lyric
— Atalanta Goulandris (@greekie50) March 20, 2016
Read Claudia Rankine here.
@AdamWagner1 @rights_info Yeats, always Yeats https://t.co/IPd2HAyMaJ
— Dan Reisel (@danreisel) March 19, 2016
Get your Yeats fix here.
. @rights_info One of the best #poems is Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka
— Yewa Holiday (@Yyadiloh) March 20, 2016
Read Wole Soyinka’s work here.
@kirstigreen @rights_info One more, by Musa Okwonga: https://t.co/zpFl2uXVAl
— Rishi Dastidar (@BetaRish) March 20, 2016
Check out the poetry of Musa Okwonga.
@AdamWagner1 @rights_info the genius that is @holliepoetry this one is particularly apt: https://t.co/3iYblhw6aO
— Suzanne Gallagher (@LinguistLawyer) March 19, 2016
Thanks to everyone who replied for all of your fantastic suggestions.
Happy reading & watching!
