What to Black America is Your Revival?

Three Essays on What Revival Is and Isn’t

On Revival

By Robert Monson

What happens when you call something revival

And all I see is blank space?

What happens when you see revival 

And all I see is oppressors?

What happens when you say revival

And I think about all the ways

“Revival” hasn’t changed anything

For people like me?

Because calling something by its proper name

Matters, truly matters.

And…who gets…