Everything you need to understand or teach Black Coffee Blues.
“Black Coffee Blues” is a prose poem by American poet Mary K O’Melveny. It first appeared in Jerry Jazz Musician in 2024. It opens with an epigraph pulled from a song called Black Coffee, and can be read as an ekphrastic response to this song. The poem explores the parallels between black coffee and heartbreak, examining the effects of loneliness on the speaker.
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