Lucy Terry

Lucy Terry clearly carried her lyrical poetry in a way so very Revered, for decades Bars Fight was read out loud at town hall meeting night and shared, Her only surviving poem was spared Bars fight put a luminous light, on a Native American raid that happened one faithful Massachusetts night It describes the plight and fight of the people who were mainly white in her community A reason her only surviving work continued to exist with immunity Go read the poem and give it a clap It's flowing spoken word by an early person in our nation who was black Go listen to a modern spoken word track The earliest surviving poem from an American who's black Go watch on youtube bars fight recited by Shanta Lee Gander and her oral preservation has an answer! 7-20-23 12:41am