A Week In Alabama (Day 3) Poetry: Amos, 1963 by Margaret WalkerAmos is a Shepherd of suffering sheep;A pastor preaching in the depths of AlabamaPreaching social justice to the SouthlandRead More Lyrical: I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Hank WilliamsNo matter how I struggle and strive/I’ll never get out of this world …
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Care Package for Sunday, July 4, 2021
A Week In Alabama (Day 2) Poetry: Largo by Brian TeareNow the rainNow the seams put in eveningNow the tree seeming shakes outRead More Lyrical: The Rock and the Hill by Allison MoorerI’m tired of pushing this rock up the hill/Tired of this rock/Tired of that hill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1yZ3uCnzNk Art: Kerry James …
Care Package for Saturday, July 3, 2021
A Week In Alabama (Day One) Poetry: Southern Mansion by Arna BontempsPoplars are standing there still as deathAnd ghosts of dead menMeet their ladies walkingRead More Lyrical: Outer Spaceways, Inc. by Sun RaIf you find earth boring/just the same old thing/Come and sign up with/Outer Spaceways, Incorporated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrxMaY2-wJw Art: Willam Walmsley’s Ding Dong Daddy Dog …
Care Package for Friday, July 2, 2021
A Week In Vermont (Day 6) Poetry: Pledge by Elizabeth PowellRepublic, your cool handsOn my schoolgirl shoulders.Not sure what allegiances meantUntil the vows were held by heart,By memory, by rote, by benign betrothal.Read More Lyrical: Lines and Circles by StrangefolkTime and time and time again/Circles break and lines they bend/And you, got to let it …
Care Package for Thursday, July 1, 2021
A Week In Vermont (Day 5) Poetry: Recession by Sydney LeaA grotesquerie for so long we all ignored it:The mammoth plastic Santa lighting upOn the Quik-Stop’s roof, presiding over pumpsThat gleamed and gushed in the tarmac lot below it.Read More Lyrical: Why We Build the Wall by Anaïs MitchellThe enemy is poverty/And the wall keeps …
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