"Black poetry is the music in the pulse of language...There is no song like the song of Cave Canem. There is no bread like the bread we break.”
Help us support Black poets as we continue to break bread to the music of Cave Canem: https://t.co/xku7DRsxes
“I wanted to write a poem that explored these tensions and that would honor the young, Black lives and the supernatural world along with them.”
––Tameka Cage Conley
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Somebody said they was searching for stars but looked down into them waves.
––Tameka Cage Conley, “Kin: First Responders”
@DrTCageConley#PoemADay
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One of they own was down in the belly of the river, so The Six dove and flew, neither flippered nor winged, as if air could hold them, as if riverwater was sweet.
––Tameka Cage Conley
@DrTCageConley#PoemADay
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ICYMI: @EmoryOxford first-years in @DrTCageConley's "In the Language of Folk and Kin" seminar analyze the work of @tylerperry alongside that of literary luminaries Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Laurence Dunbar and more. https://t.co/X50dhsQt2F
A college professor at Emory University was inspired to create a course about Tyler Perry’s life and career that will teach college students about his legacy. @DrTCageConley
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https://t.co/wc9FtO6gES My brilliant students @EmoryOxford &’@EmoryUniversity dazzle in this history-making course on the master work of @tylerperry. This week, we screen and study Perry’s A Jazzman’s Blues on @netflix!
Tameka Cage Conley (@DrTCageConley), an asst. prof. professor of English & creative writing at Oxford College (@EmoryOxford), has turned her love and appreciation for @TylerPerry into a college course. Perry keynoted Emory's 2022 Commencement. https://t.co/OtxSKDIId5
Thrilled to teach master class on the work and legacy of @tylerperry at @EmoryOxford interrogating community, folklore, kinship, and the gospel music tradition in his work. https://t.co/VvWsA2govo
I thought freedom was a destination and birthright, until I heard @esglaude identity freedom as “practice.” I felt grace and a shift. Grateful to engage Dr. Glaude in conversation on March 17, with opening and closing remarks by @DougAHicks, Dean of @EmoryOxford. Join us!