This once was going to be A Facebook statusLike the word bank of words I anticipate to useWords I come across while reading academically and occasionally for leisure There is a few words I choose to never include in my everyday vernacularSee these words people think are so spectacular as to revolutionize falling revitalizing these lifeless words however […]
Natasha Connolly has been selected as youth poetry ambassador and Sadie Jackson has been selected as deputy youth poetry ambassador for 2023 by RI Poet Laureate Tina Cane, the RI Center for the Book announced. Both are students at Classical High School in Providence. Karuna Lohmann of Quest Montessori High School in Narragansett, Marvellous Awe […]
Spoken words have power – to spread ideas, create new thoughts, spin up ideas, or even just amuse or entertain. They are the OG medium of communication, artistic expression and journalism.To recognize the practitioners of art forms such as spoken word, storytelling and stand-up comedy, Motif is embarking on a new kind of awards show […]
Brando is dead–the eulogies are out today,the shadows and the light.And I’m out here mowing the lawn in the summer heat,the reel of the blades like a horse’s neigh,cicadas’ rattle,thinking of Hannibal Lecter and that dream I hadwhere he took me back through time. Was reading Stephen King today – his Danse Macabre –took out […]
like the creases in the pagesof your favorite novel,and the folds at the jointsand eyelids of a newborn child,and the cracks in the bark of your favorite tree,and the wrinkled bedsheetsof a good nightʼs sleep,like the highlighted routeon your road map,and the arrows on the clockthat point to the time you have left, trace them and […]
When the asking is over And solitude is decided By you, others or the universe What remains is pure Fire Pursed lips on sweet wine Thoughts all your own “Come see me” say you to the darkness “Come and get me if you dare” For I know you Better than you know yourself Better than […]
The same fire that keeps the wolves at bay alerts them to your presence The same fire that pushes away the darkness makes the shadows dance The same fire that feeds off the air is threatened by the wind that heats the night is hindered by the cold How do you keep the fire going, […]
Black girl magic And the mystical magical negro They sound relateddon’t they? When you dig more deeply though, you realize that Black girls labeled magic are recognized for the way they marry Intellect, flexibility and accomplishment. The magical negro is viewed skeptically for the way they display these same things assumed to be fixed when the evidence shows flexible, knowledgeable when learning is constantly being soughtand satisfied as though accomplishment Only comes in singles. Hugs to all […]
Lourdes Nicolella of the Moses Brown School has been selected as youth poetry ambassador and Adi Gamache of the Met School has been selected as deputy youth poetry ambassador for 2022 by Poet Laureate Tina Cane, the RI Center for the Book announced in a statement. Adam Fontaine of Smithfield High School and Cyprus Weaver […]