Poetry: You Are Who I Love by Aracelis GirmayYou, selling roses out of a silver grocery cartYou, in the park, feeding the pigeonsYou cheering for the beesYou with cats in your voice in the morning,Feeding catsRead More Song In My Head:I Am Her by Shea Diamond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zOOnvB7K8 Art: Amy Sherald’s Planes, Rockets, and the Spaces …
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Poetry: Lost and Found by Honey Bell-BeyEvery little black girl needs to take a trip tothe lost and found.Every little black girl needs to look throughboxes marked“rejected,”“abandoned,” “promiscuous”Read More Song In My Head: Lift Every Voice and Sing by Ray Charles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8921j20e8 Art: Joshua Johnson’s Portrait of Adelia Ellender Photo credit: americanart.si.edu Quote: “Power concedes …
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Poetry: A Grain of Sand by Frances Ellen Watkins HarperDo you see this grain of sandLying loosely in my hand?Do you know to me it broughtJust a simple loving thought?Read More Song In My Head: Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3KsbnQZxU Art: Lorna Simpson’s 7 Mouths Photo credit: lsimpsonstudio.com Quote: “I swear to the …
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Poetry: Miracles by Giannina Braschi–There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed in yourphilosophy.–Like what?–Like miracles–like changes of power–likeRead More Song In My Head: Sleeping By Myself by Julian Lake & Chris Eldridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Mw6IYJ4xw Art: Eugène Cuvelier’s [Fontainebleau Forest] Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “If you want peace you don’t talk to …
Poetry: I Say the Thing for the First Time by Adrian Matejka& there’s no taking it back now.What comes next? Charcoal undergone,darkroom for soliloquy & irises wideat home. Some underside party poppingRead More Song In My Head: Golden by Jill Scott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QCXr79Rkcw Art: From Kara Walker’s Go To Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First Photo …
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