"Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue."

✍️ Aus dem Gedicht "The Birth Name” von Warsan Shire.
Die Autorin wurde im Nebensatz eines Zeitungsartikels erwähnt. Schon bin ich ihr auf der Spur.

#WarsanShire #Dichterin #Lyrik #Gedicht

Every day this month UCBHSSP is honoring Black History by quoting a critical thinker, and providing a critical inquiry to use in your classroom.
#BlackHistoryMonth #WarsanShire #MigrationStories #RefugeeVoices #CauseAndConsequence #HumanStories #ResistingDehumanization #GlobalBlackness #BHM #UCBHSSP

"I'll rewrite this whole life and this time there'll be so much love, / you won't be able to see beyond it." - Warsan Shire, from "Backwards," Her Blue Body

#poetry #WarsanShire

🎉❤️🎉❤️🎉❤️🎉❤️
It's #BlackPoetryDay

Here are some gorgeous words written by my favorites...

#MayaAngelou
#JamesBaldwin
#AudreLorde
#NikkiGiovanni
#AliceWalker
#LangstonHughes
#WarsanShire
#NayyirahWaheed
#GwendolynBrooks

#warsanshire

MOOD: #WarsanShire #Poetry #dystopia

I post this poem every year on
June 20th, which is #WorldRefugeeDay

2025 THEME:
"Community as a Superpower"

#Home #PoemHome #WarsanShire #WarsanShireHome

Painting in watercolour of multiple faces on top of a roadmap, with part of a poem from Warsan Shire written on the black painted background. It's a poem about why people flee their home countries.

The poem "Home"from Warsan Shoire is so heartbreakingsly beautiful. Here's one of my mappaintings where I used part of her poem.
#resist #protest #useyourvoice #activism #feminism #womensrights #equalrights #humanity #WarsanShire #mappainting #mapart #denthe

Meine Gedanken zu ozeanischen Grenzen und #WarsanShire morgen bei der Ringvorlesung “Grenzen – Grenzräume – Grenzbegegnungen” @unitrier.bsky.social. Alle Infos, auch zur Online-Teilnahme, hier: www.uni-trier.de/studium/weit...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #Breakfast

Jessica Curry, Warsan Shire, London Voices & Ben Parry:
🎵 Home

#BBCRadio3 #JessicaCurry #WarsanShire #LondonVoices #BenParry

Day 8 – ‘You can’t make homes out of human beings’ ‘You can’t make homes out of human beings’. A Warsan Shire master stroke from her poem ‘ For Women Who Are Difficult To Love’. A truer statement has never been said. I…

'Boundaries are extremely important but are seldomly recognized as positive mechanism for redress.'
#Day8 #Wordpress #Blog #Boundaries #WarsanShire #Bluesky
calvin3000.wordpress.com/2025/04/19/d...

#poetry #warsanshire #refugees

It’s World Poetry Day, so I pulled together a few poems I’ve been sitting with lately. Some are old favourites, some are newer discoveries — all of them made me pause.

#WorldPoetryDay #LucilleClifton #MaryKarr #WarsanShire #CKWilliams #RashaAbdulhadi #PoetryThatStays #PoetsToRead

#WomensHistoryMonth
AND #WorldPoetryDay (3/21)

Recognizing two gifted Poets
(❤️ two of my personal favorites❤️)

#WarsanShire
#NayyirahWaheed

El lunes empieza este ciclo de encuentros para comprender el mundo a través de lo que las africanas escriben sobre el amor, la familia o la muerte. #LolaShoneyin, #Chimamanda, #LaurenBeukes, #PaulinaChiziane, #ScholastiqueMukasonga, #HemleyBoum, #VéroniqueTadjo, #KolekaPutuma, #WarsanShire, ...

From Warsan Shire's book, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Own Head: bookshop.org/a/862/978059...

#poem #poetry #writing #warsanshire #books

#WarsanShire
#BlessTheDaughterRaisedByAVoiceInHerHead

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems (2022)
Random House

#moonlitgetaway #literarymagazine #quoteoftheday #dailyquote #warsanshire #poetry

painting on a map with a quote by Warsan Shire

#stateoftheworld #sadness #world #mapfaces #denthe #quote #artandwords #peace #warsanshire

Double Feature (Book Edition): Poetry 💙📚

Nejma by #NayyirahWaheed
Teaching my Mother how to give birth by #WarsanShire

In honor of the Super Moon - Bless the Moon by Warsan Shire. #poem #poetry #warsanshire #supermoon

“Later that night
I held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere”
- Warsan Shire

#poetry #warsanshire

Notes during awesome class by Emerald Carter & Emily Sernaker on #warsanshire. Mindblowing poems…

Today’s literary bounty be online & still holy. #WarsanShire Appreciate the early read @penguinrandom ✊🏾

Day 5
#TheSealeyChallenge a triptych by #sharonolds @Malikabooker #warsanshire

Seeking refuge from falsity so #everynightapoem. Tonight: #WarsanShire, "home":

no one leaves home unless/
home is the mouth of a shark

Seeking respite from relentless falsity by remembering that #wordsmatter, so every night a poem. Tonight: #WarsanShire, "In Love and In War"

The talented #warsanshire http://instagram.com/p/uAH5alIzOD/

#warsanshire #nationalpoetrymonth #again #sorrynotsorry