Poetry: Paul Robeson by Gwendolyn BrooksThat timewe all heard it,cool and clear,cutting across the hot grit of the day.Read More Song In My Head: Bless Up by Koryn Hawthorne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1pDq0ABplY Art: Julie Mehretu’s Conjured Parts (eye), Ferguson Photo credit: mariangoodman.com Quote: “Belief in oneself and knowing who you are – I mean, that’s the foundation …
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Poetry: How I Got That Name by Marilyn ChinAn essay on assimilationI am Marilyn Mei Ling ChinOh, how I love the resolutenessof that first person singularfollowed by that stalwart indicativeRead More Song In My Head:I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) by The Electric Prunes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjaHU8iuhmI Art: Paul Cézanne’s Trees and Houses Near the …
Poetry: Stars by John Warner SmithNew Orleans, a Tuesday, 7:30 A.M.I’m sipping coffee at a McDonald’s on Canalwhen two young black men, early twenties perhaps,Read More Song In My Head: Ghetto by India.Arie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0RDglCneM Art: Zanele Muholi’s Ngwane I, Oslo Photo credit: guggenhiem.org Quote: “Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. …
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Poetry: zero in on by Claire MeuschkeI turn on a light in a room I pace away fromtake comfort behind neon signs nested in wiresan errant mirror propped against a commercial stripRead More Song In My Head: I Grieve by Peter Gabriel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wZkbRJq6wk Art: The Limbourg Brothers’ The Belles Heures of Jean …
Poetry: Tired by Fenton JohnsonI am tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else’s civilizationLet us take a rest, M’Lissy Jane.Read More Song In My Head: Star by Gary Clark, Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENFUyc8n5Co Art: Sam Gilliam’s 10/27/69 Photo credit: pacegallery.com Quote: “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” – …
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