MARTIN: It's hard to think about the fact that that day that we read that poem for Ahmaud Arbery was the very day that we learned about George Floyd's killing. Kwame, thanks for being here.ĪLEXANDER: Yeah, it's good to be here today. The jury found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all three counts in the murder of George Floyd. Yesterday's verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial feels in a way like a turning point. I am sorry that all I can do is write this poem. MARTIN: I am sorry that the only song they know to sing for you is tragedy. I am sorry that we all know your name now, that we will forget it far too soon. KWAME ALEXANDER, BYLINE: While we await such a day, let us say your name, Ahmaud Arbery, Ahmaud Arbery, Ahmaud Arbery. Kwame titled it "Running For Your Life." Here's an excerpt of the reading that he and I did of that poem back then. He wrote it after the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by two white men while he was out for a jog in Glynn County, Ga. It's been almost a year since our poet-in-residence, Kwame Alexander, created a community poem about the hope of being Black and safe in America.
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