Last bit of work on my #thesis. 2 hours to go until I have I turn it in. #thesis #creativewriting #poetry #millscollege #finals
California-native, femme writer, theorist and feminist who likes pretty things. Bloodstream of ink, lyric heartbeat. I queer everything.
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From Fence/Harmony Holiday:
“In the spirit of National Poetry Month, we are inaugurating a by-us-for-us iteration of an audio archive of poems and poetry-related material. We hope to record at least one poem or related-excerpt or piece of writing each day this month, with an emphasis on poems and texts by Black, Brown and Beige writers, artists and thinkers or writers/artists/thinkers in solidarity with aesthetics that are less-than-dominant within traditional archives.
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➜I love your blog and I think I'll be going for the last on the list: How long has it taken you to get published?
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This poem is tragically powerful and the typeface helps a lot. All the more reason I need a typewriter.
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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AFTER CHRISTMAS! Please submit! Your submissions do not have to go with the theme. I’d really appreciate your support. Thank you! :)
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Clear your schedules for December 5th!
For what, exactly? Well, I can’t tell you just quite yet. In the meantime, gather your teacups; keep your Sunday best dry-cleaned; and ruminate over a delightful cup of tea.
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More and more frequently the edges
of me dissolve and I become
a wish to assimilate the world, including
you, if possible through the skin
like a cool plant’s tricks with oxygen
and live by a harmless green burning.
I would not consume
you or ever
finish, you would still be there
surrounding me, complete
as the air.
Unfortunately I don’t have leaves.
Instead I have eyes
and teeth and other non-green
things which rule out osmosis.
So be careful, I mean it,
I give you fair warning:
This kind of hunger draws
everything into its own
space; nor can we
talk it all over, have a calm
rational discussion.
There is no reason for this, only
a starved dog’s logic about bones.via mewmugi➜ -
[I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in
I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only.] I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.
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A group of creative writing students risk everything to inspire change in their impoverished community.
“Romeo Is Bleeding (working title) is a documentary about young artists inspiring change in an impoverished city. The students of Richmond California’s creative writing group, RAW Talent (Richmond Artists With Talent), are no strangers to trauma. Their city is small but the homicide rate is abnormally high, with teens killing each other over turf divisions between North and Central Richmond. In a community so deeply entrenched in a cycle of retaliation, there are many dead-end streets and few positive outlets. Yet the students at RAW Talent have found their voices through spoken word poetry and are determined to change Richmond with their art.
The film will follow the students and staff of RAW Talent as they prepare their biggest show to date, Te’s Harmony, a modern re-telling of Romeo and Juliet set in Richmond. The Shakespearean masterpiece has been reworked into spoken word poetry and Richmond vernacular, creating an allegory for the conditions haunting Richmond and its youngest citizens. RAW Talent students see their own story reflected within this tragedy, and dare to believe in a different ending.
Leading RAW Talent in its efforts is Donte Clark, RAW Talent’s first member and greatest success story. Donte turned his life around after being introduced to poetry, transforming from a troubled student into a community leader and role model. Now Donte is the Assistant Director of RAW Talent, a teacher, and the playwright behind RAW Talent’s adaptation.
Donte has devoted his life to creating a peaceful Richmond, because he has experienced first hand how violence and trauma can derail young lives. Along with the rest of the RAW Talent staff, Donte works every day to change the inner-city perspective of masculinity and end the cycle of violence in Richmond. Undeterred by the dangers associated with being the voice of peace, Donte continues to inspire change through his art, and the succesfful production of Te’s Harmony would represent his greatest achievement yet.”
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