The Helios Biblios Hour : HOUSING ,POETRY 2 for your MIND

Special guest # one Rob Collins, Esq.Education & Outreach Coordinator 
Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence, Inc. (HOPE, Inc.) We fight housing discrimination.Special guest #2 Guest :Rodney R. Rhodes, poet, author, film maker, speaker, and CEO of Blackified, LLC. From Detroit Michigan.

In Africa, poetry has a history dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry, and panegyric and elegiac court poetry were developed extensively throughout the history of the empires of the Nile, Niger and Volta river valleys  Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa can be found among the pyramid text Ancient thinkers sought to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulting in the development of Poetics is the theory of literary forms.Poetry as an art form predates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law.Some American spoken-word poetry originated from the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, blues, and the Beat Generation of 1960s. Spoken word in African American culture drew on a rich literary and musical heritage