Poetry: Twizzlers by Pamela SneedSize color class I was never allowed to be littleAnd my little I mean innocentBy little mean allowed to playmake mistakesRead More Song In My Head: Fight Like a Girl by Zolita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWcvcfpqs08 Art: Gertrude Abercrombie’s The Blue Whale Photo credit: artnet.com Quote: “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” …
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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: …
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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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 …
Poetry: Naming the Baby by Yesenia MontillaI couldn’t bring myselfto read through Breonna’s socialmedia but some say she believed 2020would be her year. She evenRead More Song In My Head:Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) by Marvin Gaye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ykv1D0qEE Art: Rashid Johnson’s Untitled Anxious Drawing Photo credit: hauserwirth.com Quote: “I had no idea that …
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