Mistah Witch

Published: Feb. 13, 2024, 10:47 p.m.

Even in 1913, Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson was already using Blues-language in his literary poetry.\xa0 In this poem he printed in dialect from his first book-length poetry collection "A Little Dreaming" Johnson may be encoding a message not every listener will understand.\xa0

There will be a discussion of that and more than 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) with original music in different styles at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org