In celebration of National Poetry Month and APIA Heritage Month this year, we have started a two-month Monday Morning series in which we will be sharing an audio recording of a different poem that has moved, challenged, or stuck with us each week.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Monday Morning Poem is one of Mia’s picks, an excerpt of M. NourbeSe Philip’s book Zong!<\/em><\/a> (Wesleyan U Press, 2008), which takes on, and writes against,\u00a0 the injustice inherent in the [true] story of a slave ship whose captain\u2014in November of 1781\u2014ordered that 150 Africans be drowned so that the owners could collect insurance money.\u00a0\u00a0 Philip’s masterful control of sound, space, and pause; and the piercing understated-ness of her oral delivery make this recording (and the rest of the “Zong” poems that are documented in PennSound<\/a>\u2018s archives) softly chilling and magnetically resonant.<\/p>\n <\/a>M. NourbeSe Philip reads “Zong 19”<\/a><\/p>\n To listen via streaming audio, click the link above, which will take you to Philip\u2019s page on PennSound, and then scroll down to the recording (#17 under the “Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club”).<\/p>\n