Care Package for Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Poetry: Altitude by Cyrus CassellsYou’ve just died in my arms,But suddenly it seems we’re eternalCali boys, Afro-haired cohorts in crime,Racing through intricate latticesRead More Lyrical: Shot In the Arm by WilcoMaybe all I need is a shot in the arm/Something in my veins bloodier than blood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wE17fyb85A Art: Fragmentary Face of King Khafre Photo credit: …

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Women’s History Month Care Package for Monday, March 1, 2021

Poetry: The Sound of Their Names by Ellen BassFor the Women of the 19th AmendmentPraise their grit and gospel, their glisteningbrains, their minds on fire. Neurons, numbering the stars.Praise their bones. Their spines and skulls,the axis, the atlas: I will not and I shall. Read More Song In My Head: Girl On Fire by Alicia Keys …

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Care Package for Monday, March 1, 2021

Poetry: Like That by Alexandria PearyAn enormous snow-covered branchis threatening the living room.An enormous tanned branchwith snow like heaps of table linensRead More Lyrical: It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken by The Tragically HipLet’s get friendship right/Get life day to day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85k4RxqRyv8 Art: Giovanni Battista Lodi da Cremona’s Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal …

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Black History Month Care Package for Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021

Poetry: Hysterical Strength by Nicole SealeyWhen I hear news of a hitchhikerstruck by lightning yet living,or a child lifting a two-ton sedanRead More Song In My Head: i by Kendrick Lamar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aShfolR6w8 Art: Jordan Casteel’s Kimmah Photo credit: jordancasteel.com Quote: “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. …

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Care Package for Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021

Poetry: Self-Portrait with Eraser by Andrea CohenI drew the eraserfirst because I knewit better than I knewmyself and becauseRead More Song In My Head: Long Cut by Uncle Tupelo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug2I04X9MGE Art: Michael Ostendorfer’s Atronomicum Caesareum Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the …

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