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 …
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Black History Month Care Package for Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021
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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Care Package for Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021
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 …
Black History Month Care Package for Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
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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Care Package for Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
Poetry: City That Does Not Sleep by Federico García LorcaIn the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody.Nobody is asleep.The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl about their cabins.Read More Song In My Head: Moonage Daydream by David Bowie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPUAldgS7Sg Art: Thomas Eakins’ John Biglin in a Single Scull Photo …
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