Creative Poetry Project
Paper details:
Choose one of the projects below. YOUR POEM MUST BE 8-16 LINES LONG.
Read Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” or Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “The Haunted Oak.” Write an original poem/rap about police use of excessive force.
Create a dialogue or call-and-response between a rap and another literary text: a poem, spiritual, work song or protest song.
Create a poem/rap inspired by a poet whose work is rooted in the oral tradition. Such poets include: Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Etheridge Knight, Haki Madhubuti, Henry Dumas, Ruth Forman, Tyehimba Jess.
In the style of Ballad of the Landlord and We Real Cool, write a poem/rap about a placgoce or a time period.
