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Monday, June 19th, 2023 – 6:30PM – Shim’s
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June 19th, 2023
(Season 2, Session 25)
5:00PM – Doors Open
5:30PM – Sign-Ups Open
6:00PM – Prompt Open
6:30PM – Set Performances
7:00PM – Host Discretion
7:30PM – Open Mic Open
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NOTE:
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No hate speech, violence, racism, misogyny, or disrespectful disruptive behavior will be tolerated. No predatory behavior will be tolerated. As an ongoing regular event for Spoken Views Collective, MONDAY NIGHT POETRY has a zero tolerance policy for the fore mentioned behaviors. Spoken Views Collective additionally designates the evening’s HOST as reserving the right to have any and all individuals breaking these expected codes of conduct (which honor the humanity in each other) removed and denied service.
INSPIRATIONAL / INFORMATIVE QUOTES
“I catch the pattern
Of your silence
Before you speak.
I do not need
To hear a word
In your silence
Every tone I seek
Is heard.”
— Langston Hughes, “Silence”
“If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.”
— Coretta Scott King

“Words of Emancipation didn’t arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.”
— Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth
“Emancipation wasn’t a gift bestowed on the slaves; it was something they took for themselves, the culmination of their long struggle for freedom, which began as soon as chattel slavery was established in the 17th century, and gained even greater steam with the Revolution and the birth of a country committed, at least rhetorically, to freedom and equality. In fighting that struggle, black Americans would open up new vistas of democratic possibility for the entire country.”
“Studying the blueprints of liberation, one can map out the ways we as The Global African Diaspora have continued to resist and exist under regimes of antiBlack terror. Since the development of racial capitalism, the use of African peoples as capital, our ancestors have always fought for freedom. Our history doesn’t begin with slavery, but our future depends on us ending the mechanisms of it. Juneteenth is an extension of that abolitionist spirit where we march forth in reflection of the struggle.” — Brandon Gonzalez
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
— Toni Morrison
“You must never, ever give out. We must keep the faith because we are one people. We are brothers and sisters. We all live in the same house: The American house.”
— John Lewis
“What I love about #Juneteenth is that even in that extended wait, we still find something to celebrate. Even though the story has never been tidy, and Black folks have had to march and fight for every inch of our freedom, our story is nonetheless one of progress.”

“If you dare to struggle, you dare to win. If you dare not struggle, then damn it, you don’t deserve to win.” — Fred Hampton
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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10 Best Poems to Read on Juneteenth
https://poemanalysis.com/best-poems/juneteenth/
Best Poems to Read for Juneteenth
• 1 Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
• 2 I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
• 3 Primer For Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks
• 4 won’t you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
• 5 Rosa Parks by Nikki Giovanni
• 6 Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
• 7 Lineage by Margaret Walker
• 8 Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar
• 9 Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
• 10 C.R.E.A.M. by Danez Smith
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FOR ADDITIONAL READING / VIEWING
Juneteenth History
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth
Juneteenth is now a National holiday
Kevin Garnett Hoop It Up Tournament
Juneteenth : Celebration of Resilience
https://nmaahc.si.edu/events/juneteenth
Celebrating Juneteenth
Gregory Pardio – A letter to Juneteenth
A Brief History of Juneteenth
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-juneteenth
Juneteenth Worldwide Celebration
A Native American Perspective on Juneteenth
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2020/06/a-native-american-perspective-on-juneteenth.html
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Pieces to share by JJZ
106 Miles
Jubilee
Friction versus Freedom
SIDEWAYS EIGHT PROJECTS 