Broadside Lotus Press announces the 2024 NLM Award
Holy Ghost Key by Joshua Myers
Poet and Black Studies scholar, Howard University
Joshua Myers’s Holy Ghost Key celebrates the essential role of African music in the continuity and sustenance of African Diasporic life and culture. Myers weaves his broad knowledge of African and African American music practices, genres and instruments with his memory of gospel lyrics and symbols evoking African spirituality, showing us the ways in which this music has been both the light on our path and the grounding of our historic journey. Though many of the poems pay tribute to the genius of contemporary musicians who have won popular acclaim, the entire collection reminds of a persistent African ancestral legacy.
“His poems are … moving because they are musical, rich in swinging cadences, while they are fat with the funk and soul of great gospel and blues….These poems are deeply planted in Black culture.”
– A.B. Spellman, Between the Night and Its Music
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