The Best Poetry in America
Volume 1
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A New Philosophy after 9/11
Have you ever met someone whom you’ve asked:
What do you think about 9/11?
And they are full of empty responses!
They have no idea about how to resolve the conflicts,
Nor do they have solutions about how to make the world better.
You see there is a philosophical difference
As to how to make the world better,
As contrasted with how to make a better world.
The former denotes a progressively changing world
That has gradually become better;
But the latter denotes the best type of world;
This is the best type that there can ultimately become!
Education can help resolve
The void in one’s world!
The key is to provide humanity with knowledge;
But send many of these students to college!
Provide them with more information, and
They will learn along their way in life!
This new generation of learners will think of great ideas!
And they will develop many useful thoughts along the way;
They will succeed because they have been provided with “the Best!
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About the Book
The Best Poetry in America is written to share with the world where history has taken poetry over the years. The book allows the reader to take a poetic journey in life via themes and dreams. The author allows the reader to have numerous opportunities to reflect on individuals, and the times in which they lived. The author has written several volumes of the Best Poetry in America. In Volume 1, the book identifies six themes. Theme 1 includes 14 poems under the theme “On Becoming the Best” and inspires one to become the best. Theme 2 is about “Overcoming Disasters in Our World” and has 14 poems. Theme 3 outlines “The Struggle for Justice and Equality” and allows the reader to reflect on life in 14 poems. Theme 4 discusses the importance of “World Harmony, Peace and Leadership in nine poems. Theme 5 reminds us about the importance of love and shares eight poems on the theme “Love Conquers All”. Theme 6 focuses on “Introducing America’s Deuce Millennium Generation to the World” in 12 poems.
About the Author
Dr. Jesse J. Hargrove is a noted author, neologist, and distinguished educator, poet, photographer, futurist, and scholar who believes that poetry plays a key role in society to communicate and inform humanity concerning how the world can be made better for all to achieve greatness. He loves public education and says that it can serve a greater purpose. Poetry can allow for it to keep pace with the new shifts in societal changes which have been prompted by national and global events. He encourages parents to read more poetry to their children as well as to educate them about the importance of going to school and getting a good education. One of his research areas focuses on a new generation of learners in America, whom he refers to as the Deuce Millennium Generation.
He uses ethnography as a research medium to capture a snapshot picture of the culture under study. He was born in rural Gough, Georgia where his great grandmother Celia Adams was an ex-slave and a mid-wife who lived from March 12, 1856-March 21, 1942. He was born 100 years after the birth of his great grandfather who was born on February 22, 1853. His great grandfather, Solomon Hargrove, was an educator who taught children to read and write, but was tragically lynched in 1893 for organizing his free school at Eden Baptist Church which his wife Celia helped to found in Louisville, Georgia in 1885.
His mother instilled within him a love for education. He developed a love for reading in fourth grade and graduated with honors and was ranked 9th in his Class of 1971 from Dillard High School. Hargrove graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dillard University in New Orleans in 1975 and majored in Spanish Education after earning scholarships to study at two schools in Guadalajara, Mexico during the summer and a junior year exchange program at the University of California at Berkeley. Arthur Jensen and William Shockley studied him and his peers from Historically Black Colleges and Universities on the IQ genetic inferiority issue of the era. He studied six languages at Cal Berkeley. In 1977, Hargrove was awarded the M.A. degree in Spanish and Spanish American Literature and received the Ph.D. degree in 1983 from the College of Education in Bilingual/Multicultural Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana, Illinois.
Hargrove has taught Spanish in public schools and higher education. He has worked at two colleges in the University of Wisconsin system, the University of Arizona in Tucson, Broward County Public Schools and Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, he is Chair of the Division of Education and has served in administration as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Associate Dean of Instruction, and Assistant Dean of Instruction at Philander Smith College where he has been employed for the past ten years. He is civic-minded and from 2004-2009, he served as Chair of the Arkansas Commission on Closing the Achievement Gap. He can be reached at jhargrove@philander.edu