All posts tagged "Poetry"
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A Conjuring: Love Supreme: June Jordan, Love Note for JJ
By Alexis De Veaux Conjuring I do not meet June Jordan. I encounter her. The way one encounters what one cannot see- force, cosmic energy,...
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A Legacy of Resistance
words run deep, trickling through layers of Israeli propaganda and lies spoonfed to American audiences of CNN and FOX News. She wove truth...
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June Jordan Solves the Energy Crisis: Love is Lifeforce
By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Not many people are turning to black feminist texts from the 1970s as their major strategy for addressing the current climate...
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“Defeat Will Be Detestable to Us”: A Tribute to June Jordan
And now, I hung on to June Jordan’s every word. I watched her on screen in Pratibha Parmar’s A Place of Rage. Her words were...
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martina pronounces her own name (ode to June Jordan)
By Martina “Mick” Powell for June Jordan this is how i learn it: her black and in cropped cut and singsong her in a summer water, the florida of it...
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the oath
june's voice was a stranger in my mouth. she did not equivocate or dissemble; she did not hide her meaning in metaphor; she did not...
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For June
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
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“These words/ they are stones in the water”: Introduction to The Feminist Wire Forum on June Jordan
Jordan’s insistence on the arts as a source of power was not confined to the limits of the page. She was a fiercely committed...
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2 poems by Caryl Nuñez
“Even though they have never seen me, they will remember me. Their bodies will remember me down to the smallest structures of their flesh. You...
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THANKSGIVING MEAL by H. Melt
THANKSGIVING MEAL i arrive at my parents house for my first thanksgiving with my girlfriend in the oven is the turkey on the...
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2 poems by Martha Silano
Ode to Frida Kahlo’s Eyebrows Cult of the brow ascending like a condor, of refusal to bow to the whimsy of busy tweezers. From...
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The Night I Met Gregory Corso, or Go Pump Yourself by M.J. Tenerelli
The Night I Met Gregory Corso, or Go Pump Yourself I am early for Dinner With the handsome misogynist lawyer Who is much older...
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The Funniest Thing You Ever Heard by Michelle Lewis
The Funniest Thing You Ever Heard Ha Ha 1: Animul When Animul asked me to take our flames & make them into one I...
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Diana: impending by Ian Ellasante
Diana: impending one month with no shot and Diana is calling to me again one month in which the girl is unbraiding herself into...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Chemistry Class
By Katie Suleski little boys pick on little girls they adore but sometimes big boys, to little girls take things too far “boys will...
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4 poems by Maged Zaher
* Making money takes time So is making sentences I pass by my thoughts of you They are satisfying Then eliminate the list of places...
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A poem by John Pluecker
A Tree or Another or a Lover After Martin Buber and his English translator Ronald Gregor Smith I can look on a tree...
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Poetry by Rebecca Lauren and Melissa Buckheit
Suffering by Melissa Buckheit This isn’t the answer. The answer is my hand on the table, saying what we thought privacy was, on your...
