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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Poetry: Leave No Trace by Maggie DietzNo gate, no main entrance, no ticket, no ranger. Not farFrom where Frost once raised chickens and ill-fated children, nearWhere the Old Man’s glacier-hewn face though bolstered toIts godlike roost by rods and turnbuckles slidFrom our fledgling millennium into oblivion,Read More Song In My Head: Evie’s Tears …
Poetry: Yearnings For Home by Frances Ellen Watkins HarperOh let me go I’m weary hereAnd fevers scorch my brain,I long to feel my native airBreathe o’er each burning vein.Read More Song In My Head: Stand By Me by Ranky Tanky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOF7FWv-BsU Art: Aaron Douglas’s Judgement Day Photo credit: nga.gov Quote: “Don’t try to lessen yourself …
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Poetry: Near Miss by Fanny HoweI almost met youOn a SaturdayIn Gloucester.Read More Song In My Head: Everything Is Broken by Sheryl Crow ft. Jason Isbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWiq3BE3zY Art: Calligraphic Plaque Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson Recipe: Roasted Strawberry …
Poetry: Autobiography by Lawrence FerlinghettiI am leading a quiet lifein Mike’s Place every daywatching the champsof the Dante Billiard Parlorand the French pinball addicts.Read More Song In My Head: Sweet Old World by EmmyLou Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEvWLYFFnxM Art: Albert Edward Edenshaw’s Raven rattle Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it …
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