“My Pen is a Machete” (due week 3)

BLOGPOST: “My Pen is a Machete”: Transforming English  (Tag: Poetry)
Due: Week 3

i can’t count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i waz taught to hate myself in/ the language that perpetuates the notions that cause pain to every black child as he/she learns to speak of the world  & the “self”  (LLS 19).

Take one quote/excerpt from Fanon or Rich and “read like Shange.” That is, write out the prose quote as if it were a poem–make it “move,” make the spacing reflect breath, emphasis or silence. (You can use the same quote as for your class prep, just do it on different paper.) Then reflect a bit on what this re-writing of the quote means to you.