The Curious Case of the Dam-a-Rama
“This whole time we been chasing ourselves.”
Spring 2023
Flight
There is freedom in flight.
Romare Bearden: Conjure, Continuation, and Art in the Practice of Life
A collage is, as he called it, a projection, a moment held in time, yet happening simultaneously somewhere else, transposing and then reflecting itself in the here-and-now.
A Kind of Intimacy: On A Precise Tenderness
by TINA ZAFREEN ALAM I was moved by Kalamu ya Salaam’s A Precise Tenderness: One Hundred Haiku (Third World Press, 2023) as a title before I even read the first haiku. Seeing precision and tenderness next to one another sparks a productive tension for me akin to the excitement I feel when stepping into the unknown. The unknown is exciting for me because it’s the place where all possibilities lie. On first reading the title, I found myself wondering how[Read more]
Dreams/Seeing sun
by JULIET EZEPUE Dreams | Seeing sun Dreams Dreams begin here. With people like you. Sitting and pondering. Drinking and eating. Laughing and living. Loving and living Life, our way. A dream, to sit by the ocean and think for self. To live among others like you Keeping things, worth keeping. To simply live. For where dreams begin, Life lives, our way. I am in a space between dreaming and living. top Seeing sun I watched you the other night,wondered[Read more]
archival research/black citizen cosmos
Our presence here
is no miracle.
⇝ / heavy: a burning haibun / untitled no. ∞
i know how to hold things and store them deeply.
when we have to pretend your “Science” knows us / portrait of a stranded god
and to call how they’ve known us “Science” is to say
no amount of Study reveals the strandedness of God
We give thanks
If the beginning was sound, and that sound is love then through dance is how we show our devotion.