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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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 …
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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