in honor of April being National Poetry month

(i will post poetry
either
of my own
or
written by others,
based
on the African American
                   experience )


I have to thank miss rintelmann, my very first speech pathologist, when i was 6. I had a really bad stuttering problem from childhood through the summer before college when it was finally alleviated. in addition to teaching me how to speak, miss rintelmann wanted me to do things that relaxed me. I told her that I liked to read. she introduced me to the poetry of langston hughes and e.e cummings. i took to their poetry like a fish to water and have been in love with poetry ever since.