Volume I of the KCC Reads Journal, Paideia:
Follow this link to read the first issue of Paideia: The Journal of KCC Reads:
http://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/kccreads/Documents/Book_12_13/journal_final_3.pdf
ps: Volume II coming soon!
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Please note: KCC student artist Zanib Ahmad won a 2013 KCC Reads Social Justice award for the cover art featured on the journal — congratulations, Zanib!
Dismembered Me, by Leibel Gordon
Dismembered Me
I am destroyed inside
When I read about your yesteryear:
The lion heart of an adherent mother.
I am dismembered
When I read about your burden:
How they experimented on your agony,
Saving the wasted worst of you.
You are forever freeing prisoners.
unwilling generosity, by Jonathan Tsirlin
unwilling generosity
Life after Death, by Ethel Meade
Life after Death
How a life can become eternal
How a life can make history
How a being of cells
Becomes a remarkable mother
Of mothers and fathers
The human that she was
The cells that she is
Of the world today
How quiet is history
A Black Woman, by Jameson Ostine
A Black Woman
By Jameson Ostine
Is prototype
A kind woman
Is mistreated
A memorable woman
Is not honored
A genetic woman
Is individual
A unique woman
Is gone
But remains
Generating millions of herself
A strong and powerful woman
A mistreated woman
Treating everyone
A black woman
Is in everyone
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Please note: Jameson Ostine won a 2013 KCC Reads Social Justice award for this poem — congratulations, Jameson!
Gaia (For Henrietta Lacks), by Jayomi Maysonet
Gaia
(For Henrietta Lacks)
by Jayomi Maysonet
Mother strong
Black strong
Powerfully strong
Feeding those she don’t know
Helping those she don’t know
Taking care of the children
Hers and yours and theirs
She don’t know
Your sweet, naive nature
Your friends and family
Forever everlasting
Uneducated
And violated
Yet indomitable
No, she know
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