Writers Ricky Tucker and Karmen Michael Smith discuss the intersections of the Black church and Ball Culture, bell hooks, Beyoncé (of course), and books that need to be written.
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Por Las Tias de la Trenza
Remember when Amazon.com only sold books? In the wee hours of the night I fall down an internet hole & resurface with an air purifier “From Earth’s Biggest Selection” reads
Ticking Bomb Does your pain bother you? Soul Meltdown
I believe that it is logically impossible / to have a mistake in nature
Four poems from the forthcoming collection, “Lent”
That you tend/ the family ghosts by never hitting the children/ Speak it, even while you are breaking.
Mavi Veloso’s queer trans language is always in flux, twisting Brazilian Portuguese and English phrases into new contortions that coat the tongue in a queer kind of gloss. Listen as she performs an essay-poem (or something like that). Supplemented by a queer abécédaire.
Thirty-two years after Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, it was discovered in the bedroom of a deceased woman in rural New Mexico. Only the painting knows how it got there.
A Palestinian girl growing up in suburban Ohio is proud to receive an A- on her 9th grade genocide report. Later, grown up, she asks Can a fact be sad? I wish to know.
Six encounters at six social distances, told incrementally through prose and needle painting.
