Lavelle Porter

Lavelle Porter is a writer and scholar of African-American literature. He is an assistant professor of English at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY), and he is currently working on a book about academic fiction and black higher education.

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Lavelle Porter

Dear Sister Outsider

Life Upon These Shores

‘My Music Is Words’

Celebrating Black History Month

LGBTQ+ Pride Poems

Poetry and Feminism

Poetry and Music

The Black Arts Movement

Poetry and Racial Justice and Equality

The Uses of Anger