Poetry: Disbelief by Kamilah Aisha MoonI have all of theselily plants but not you,nor peace.Read More Song In My Head: L-O-V-E by Nat King Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_HmF84G7ZY Art: Alma Thomas’s Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music Photo credit: americanart.si.edu Quote: “I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what …
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Poetry: End Words by Randall MannSewanee, Tennessee.Summer of ’96, I went there forbooze and poetry and rest.Read More Song In My Head: Father and Son by Cat Stevens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxjTC0bmKls Art: Gustav Klimt’s Mäda Primavesi Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of parties. Dream are real. …
Poetry: The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season by Ladan OsmanThey grow too aware of crowns, spendevenings rinsing and rinsing, water boiledwith oils and herbs left to coolalongside chicken and grains. The womenRead More Song In My Head: Love In War by Outkast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS7LI2IRJ2o Art: Charlie Lucas’s Saturday Night …
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Poetry: Object Permanence by Hala AlyanThis neighborhood was mine first. I walked each block twice:Drunk, then sober. I lived every day with legs and headphones.Read More Song In My Head: Clay Pigeons by John Prine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Rucu7uNwc Art: Auguste Renoir’s Landscape Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “There is no greater agony than bearing …
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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