NPR Asks Listeners to Share Poems in Response to Killing of Ahmaud Arbery

NPR has put out a call for poems to make sense of the heartbreaking death of Ahmaud Arbery. Resident poet Kwame Alexander and Morning Edition's Rachel Martin will use lines from submissions to create a crowdsourced poem, and then read it on air, with credit to contributors. "[As] an American, I see the murder of African American boys as a disease that America cannot seem to cure," says Alexander.

Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown also reflected on the news surrounding Arbery's death in his poem, "Bullet Points."

Join in by sharing a poem that helps shine a light on what's been going on in our country, that helps push us towards change and explores what's to come: chaos or community.

Share your poem in response to the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, and find out more about the project, at NPR.