Knight, Etheridge 1977
![Vintage poster of a joint reading by Gwendolyn Brooks and Etheridge Knight at the Poetry Center of Chicago.](https://archive.poetrycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/brooks-and-knight.jpg)
Vintage poster of a joint reading by Gwendolyn Brooks and Etheridge Knight at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
Compose for Red a proper verse;
Adhere to foot and strict iamb;
Control the burst of angry words
Or they might boil and break the dam.
– Etheridge Knight, “For Malcolm, A Year After”
Watch Etheridge Knight read some of his work at the Scranton Public Library Poetry Series:
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This poetry reading is part of the Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives: http://content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org/cdm/ref/collection/fospl/id/0