Dancing with Poems

 

April is National Poetry Month, and I saw a poem the other day that made me think of Byrne Miller. I never took the time to ask Byrne who her favorite poets were, but something tells me Langston Hughes would have been one of them.

Black Dancers – by Langston Hughes

We

Who have nothing to lose

Must sing and dance

Before the riches

Of the world

Overcome

Us.

We

Who have nothing to lose

Must laugh and dance

Lest our laughter

Goes from

Us.

Byrne not only brought modern dance to the Deep South, she b...