Involuntary Endurance
This week, Spokane Public Radio allowed me to share poems covering the modern Black experience. The first poem I chose to read was my poem "Involuntary Endurance," from my latest book Surviving Home due out this year. I chose to read this poem this week because as Black people we are often forced to endure things. We had to endure slavery. We were forced to endure 400 years of oppression. We endure the deaths of other Blacks at the hands of police. We just endure. I share sto
