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‘Love Is a Dangerous Word’ features a collection of rare 30-year-old poems by Black queer author Essex Hemphill
Hemphill passed away in 1995 from AIDS-related complications at just 38 years old. Subscribe ... work pulling together poetry and prose that explored themes of sex and love from the Black queer ...
Looking back on poetry and how we weren’t averse to reading verse
Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...