Tag: Black women writers

• Psaltery Body

  

  Working on redefining what it means to be well.

  Tahirah Walker

  April 14, 2022

  First Drafts, Poetry, Tahirah Wrote This

  Black women writers, Poetry

• Armor So Heavy

  

  It’s time to rest and recharge.

  Tahirah Walker

  March 25, 2022

  Career Thoughts, Essays, Reflections, Self Care, Tahirah Wrote This

  Black women writers, career advice, rest and relaxation, self care

• No Really, How Does It Feel?

  

  That time in the year 2000 when my sweet Beatle boy type friend went with me to a D’Angelo concert.

  Tahirah Walker

  March 17, 2022

  BBL Essentials, Commentary Corner, Essays, First Drafts, Reflections, Tahirah Wrote This

  Black women writers, concert memories, looking back

• So…About This Short Bio

  

  When I am faced with the please include a short bio task…

  Tahirah Walker

  February 25, 2022

  Reflections, Tahirah Wrote This

  Black women writers

• A Fifth

  

  A poem about a couple surviving addiction.

  Tahirah Walker

  February 19, 2022

  First Drafts, Poetry, Tahirah Wrote This

  alcoholism, Black women writers, Poetry, relationships, survival

• Observe, Describe, Participate: A Rejection Story

  

  I have a difficult time processing (some) rejection. This time I tried a new method.

  Tahirah Walker

  January 28, 2022

  Career Thoughts, Essays, Reflections, Self Care, Tahirah Wrote This

  Black women writers, dialectical

• Diary of Teaching While Black in 2022

  

  Teaching is love.

  Tahirah Walker

  January 21, 2022

  Career Thoughts, Tahirah Wrote This, Teaching and Learning

  Black women writers, teaching

• Man of Pine and Cedar

  

  January 14th would have been my dad’s 74th birthday. I hope he has an afterlife of all his favorite music. This is a poem about the things he left behind.

  Tahirah Walker

  January 16, 2022

  First Drafts, Poetry

  Black women writers, Poetry

• Flowers and Butterflies, A Rainbow Lives Beside It

  

  A first draft poem on the fates of promises.

  Tahirah Walker

  January 6, 2022

  Commentary Corner, First Drafts, Poetry

  Black women writers, first drafts, Poetry

• Sometimes I Wonder Where I’ve Been

  

  What is there to sayWhen all you wanted was half a chanceTo be a quarter as heardAnd a tenth as seen You test the bones under your waistYou ask them to lift you another dayYou unfold your spineAnd feel it settle A string of pearls down your backSwinging but steadying What is there to doWhen […]

  Tahirah Walker

  January 4, 2022

  Poetry

  Black women writers, Poetry