We'll spend the first hour of our Poetry Month special in conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, featuring tracks from her powerful new album, I Pray For My Enemies. Plus we'll hear poets- many from the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements- reading their work, along with poetry set to music, and hip-hop. We'll hear from Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, and many more!
UpFront Soul #2021.18 Playlist PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1. Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Charles Earland "Message from a Black Man" from Living Black! The Last Poets with Bernard Purdie "Blessed Are Those Who Struggle" from Delights of the Garden on Douglas Reuben Wilson "Inner City Blues" from Groove Merchant Super Funk Collection - Return of Jazz Funk Margaret Walker "For My People" from Anthology of Negro Poets on Folkways Blackalicious "Ego Tripping by Nikki Giovanni" from Nia on Quannum Projects Touissant St. Negritude "All Green Lights" Nikki Giovanni & The New York Community Choir "Like a Ripple on a Pond" from Like a Ripple on a Pond on Collectibles Sweet Honey in the Rock "On Children" from LIFT EVERY VOICE! Honoring the African American Musical Legacy on Cooking Vinyl Records Peabody & Sherman "They've Always Known" from James Baldwin EP on Super Bro Eddie Harris "1974 Blues" from The Artist's Choice: The Eddie Harris Anthology Disc 1 Langston Hughes "I Too" from Anthology of Negro Poets on Folkways Kim Weston "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" from Black Power: Music of a Revolution Disc 2 on Shout! Factory Maya Angelou "Africa" from Caged Bird Songs Miles Davis "Once Upon A Summertime" from Quiet Nights Countee Cullen "Heritage" from Anthology of Negro Poets on Folkways Strange Fruit "Bettye LaVette" from Blackbird 2Pac & Nikki Giovanni "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" from The Rose That Grew From Concrete on Amaru Entertainment Jessica Care Moore feat. Roy Ayers "You Want Poems" from Black Tea: The Legend of Jessi James Anthony Joseph "Calling England Home" from The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives Joy Harjo "How Love Blows Through the Trees" Joy Harjo "Running" Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters "Talk to Me (for Don Cherry)" from Taking the Blues Back Home Joy Harjo "Fear" Joy Harjo "This Morning I Pray for My Enemies" Joy Harjo "One Day There Will Be Horses" from I Pray For My Enemies Joy Harjo "An American Sunrise" from I Pray For My Enemies Joy Harjo "Rabbit Invents The Saxophone" from I Pray For My Enemies Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night on A&M
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