lucille clifton interview from Mosaic #17 2007
I'm going to start adding thought to my posts as this blog currently has no voice.
Lucille Clifton is my favorite poet. Her voice was so clear and her talents obvious. She earned her accolades and respect. And this insight shared freely through Mosaic magazine is a valuable resource in order to truly understand much of her work. Her biography Lucille Clifton : Her Life And Letters is another great place to get to know her, her gifts, her life.
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lucille clifton interview from Mosaic #17 2007
I'm going to start adding thought to my posts as this blog currently has no voice.
Lucille Clifton is my favorite poet. Her voice was so clear and her talents obvious. She earned her accolades and respect. And this insight shared freely through Mosaic magazine is a valuable resource in order to truly understand much of her work. Her biography Lucille Clifton : Her Life And Letters is another great place to get to know her, her gifts, her life.
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so many fuckless days and nights
only the solitary fox
watching my window light
barks her compassion.
i move away from her eyes.
from the pitying brush
of her tail
to a new place and check
for signs. so far
i am the only animal.
i will keep the door unlocked
until something human comes.
Leaving Fox by Lucille Clifton
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call it our craziness even,
call it anything.
it is the life thing in us
that will not let us die.
even in death’s hand
we fold the fingers up
and call them greens and
grow on them,
we hum them and make music.
call it our wildness then,
we are lost from the field
of flowers, we become
a field of flowers.
call it our craziness
our wildness
call it our roots,
it is the light in us
it is the light of us
it is the light, call it
whatever you have to,
call it anything.
roots by Lucille Clifton
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won’t you celebrate with me
won't you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
Lucille Clifton, “won't you celebrate with me” from Book of Light.
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Frida Kahlo - The Wink, Self-Portrait.
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Mark Rothko, The Dark Paintings of 1969-1970,
Part One
The Black on Gray paintings were Rothko’s final series. Like the Brown and Gray works on paper, color has been extracted to a dark upper and a lighter lower section. Most striking is the painted white edge within which the composition is circumscribed. In all of Rothko’s earlier work the edges of his paintings folding around the stretcher had been meticulously painted. In marked contrast, the white surround of the Black on Gray paintings sharply demarcates the painted surface and collapses the pictorial space into a much flatter picture plane.
Previously, Rothko had used a mixture of rabbitskin glue and pigment to douse his canvases in a first layer of colour. The Black on Gray paintings, however, were primed with white gesso which shows through in various areas, further contravening any illusion of pictorial depth. Unlike the Brown and Grays, where the variations occur within a fixed format, the Black on Gray paintings substantially vary in size and orientation, each offering a completely unique exploration of scale and ‘weight’.
The Black on Gray paintings bear witness to the tireless effort with which Rothko kept pushing the boundaries of his practice; which may also explain why one evening in late 1969 he opened his studio to select members of the New York art world to view his latest paintings, the first and only time he presented a series as such.
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Allan Salas
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Juneteenth Emancipation Day celebration at Eastwoods Park on June 19, 1900 in Austin, Texas.
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sorry to say this but not every act of protest is meant to be palatable. actually scratch that, to protest is to disrupt, it's to inconvenience, it's to make you unable to ignore the protesters message, it's priority should never be its palability.
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This Kelela interview was so eye opening and insightful. A great read thanks to Lawrence Burney. Will be checking out their other pieces.
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i want to be a garden full of flowers bursting open toward life, all of them singing, i’m here. i mean something. i want to live.
Kai Cheng Thom, "to the ones who didn't cry" from Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
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Tired of talking to Zionists I’m just going to start telling them I wish on them whatever they wish on Palestinians
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[Image description: a tweet by Twitter user “Kai Heron” (@KaiHeron) that says: "Strengthen Indigenous land rights because they're good stewards of nature" has become a refrain among Western environmentalists. Land Back is vital for Indigenous self-determination and liberation, not because Indigenous peoples do the West a service by conserving nature. /end ID]
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i love carrying groceries in a paper bag in my arms exactly how i imagined adulthood as a young girl
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