{"id":507,"date":"2021-04-15T02:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=507"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T21:05:24","slug":"my-poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/my-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"My Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Naudia Williams<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My poetry is not your nicknat<br \/>My poetry is not your repost on tumblr<br \/>It is not your operating room table to dissect<br \/>Blk voices<br \/>Black women voices<br \/>Black queer voices<br \/>My poetry is louder than a bomb<br \/>My poetry is a massacre of vernacular coming from my cardiovascular<br \/>It is sweeter than the blood of my people<br \/>My poetry is the blood of my people<br \/>It is the chestnut colored hue in the souls of Blk folk<br \/>It is folklore and fiction<br \/>It is Blk in all its depictions<br \/>Don\u2019t correct it\u2019s diction<br \/>It is the regret of loving lovers into healing and giving them the pieces of me to complete their puzzles<br \/>My poetry is jigsaw<br \/>It<br \/>is<br \/>functional<br \/>dysfunction<br \/>Obeying rules when commas,,,,,,,,,,<br \/>are involved<br \/>My poetry is ghetto yet middle class<br \/>Yet it be with the street<br \/>Find it\u2019s own beat<br \/>My poetry is nappy<br \/>Nagging<br \/>Napoleon complexes found in its haikus<br \/>My poetry is rhythm and blues<br \/>Battered and burned<br \/>My poetry is petty Labelle<br \/>Opening libraries so the children can learn to READ<br \/>My poetry is red<br \/>My poetry can not be white<br \/>And fuck them monsters in blue<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naudia Williams &nbsp; My poetry is not your nicknatMy poetry is not your repost on tumblrIt is not your operating room table to dissectBlk voicesBlack women voicesBlack queer voicesMy poetry is louder than a bombMy poetry is a massacre of vernacular coming from my cardiovascularIt is sweeter than the blood of my peopleMy poetry is&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/my-poetry\/\">Continue Reading My Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}