How Luisah Teish and Sunni Patterson’s words evoke and honor ancient Yoruba culture.

How Luisah Teish and Sunni Patterson’s words evoke and honor ancient Yoruba culture.
“Blackness was rippling across the auditorium, turning the air—and I felt it then, Sunni’s voice igniting the star-white text with a vitality that began but would not end in that room.”
Honoring three I AM NEW ORLEANS poets, along with the inciting work of Marcus B. Christian, to kick off National Poetry Month