Roger,
I take all your points. Granted this is wider than poetry. But I honestly feel quite exhausted by which poets we routinely celebrate when we comment that poetry is having a revival or whatever.
I'll amend my suggestions: Lucille Cliffton would have made a much greater choice.
I still think Angelou is honestly a pour choice. Not even Morrison?
Of black commentators: I'm sure they wouldn't ... at least not in all the big neoliberal journals.
Over here in England we have an antiquated figure of utterly useless royal power on our coins. Angelou is a step up.
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