For the Poet David Henderson Hi there. My name is George Washington Carver. If you will bear with me for a few minutes I will share with you a few of the 30,117 uses to which the lowly peanut has been… more →
poetrysupriyanna wrote 2 days ago: For the Poet David Henderson Hi there. My name is George Washington Carver. If you will bear with me … more →
zoeruiz wrote 1 month ago: Today I went into a local independent bookstore. I saw one of the employees and I said, Hey you! I d … more →
zoeruiz wrote 1 month ago: I’m reading June Jordan’s “Some Of Us Did Not Die.” Who is June Jordan? I r … more →
Patricia wrote 1 month ago: My desk is a cluttered mess of mismatched items—the leftovers—the things I do not know what to do w … more →
supriyanna wrote 1 month ago: Everybody out of the house! Everybody up on the roof! Run to the top of the street! Pull back the br … more →
speekbird wrote 3 months ago: while i’m watching this, i’m remembering the amazing young people i had the privile … more →
thisfrenzy wrote 3 months ago: from A Couple of Questions by June Jordan I have someplace to go and candles to light and I live 3, … more →
thisfrenzy wrote 3 months ago: Winter Honey June Jordan Sugar come and sugar go Sugar dumb but sugar know ain’ nothin’ … more →
thisfrenzy wrote 3 months ago: Verse after Listening to Bartok Play Bartok a Second Time, or Different Ways of Tingling All Over Ju … more →
teacherrevised wrote 4 months ago: By ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY I have a physiological reaction to the school bell, especially the electronic … more →
thecompasspoint wrote 5 months ago: With a president who reads Derek Walcott and quotes June Jordan it’s good to have comedians at … more →
supriyanna wrote 6 months ago: Supposing we could just go on as two voracious in the days apart as well as when we side by side (th … more →
r.m. wrote 6 months ago: From the Black Workers for Justice statement on the massacre in Gaza (December 31, 2008) “The … more →
girlwhocriedepiphany wrote 7 months ago: What if it’s true? What if, truly, “we are the ones we have been waiting for“? I … more →
supriyanna wrote 7 months ago: Most people search all of their lives for someplace to belong to as you said but I look instead into … more →
marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان wrote 7 months ago: I meant to blog about this earlier, but given everything going on in the world it slipped my mind. … more →
kapirasongkritika wrote 8 months ago: Marami nang nasulat at nasabi tungkol sa pagkapanalo ni Barack Obama bilang presidente ng Estados Un … more →
laterain wrote 8 months ago: I think this was written in 1992 . . . see if you can figure out some of the folks she alludes to he … more →
Ceara wrote 9 months ago: Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to l … more →