Morning Haiku

P oems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages,  from a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and  the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner.   Sonia Sanchez's collection of haiku celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds of Max Roach "exploding in the universe," the "blue hallelujahs" of the Philadelphia Murals,