My knee says sit down. My cough says shut up. My heart says there is more grief in here, and more tenderness. My vertebrae say sleep. My gut says no […]
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Year: 2015
there is an edge (ode to radical imagination)
There is an edge Beyond which we cannot grasp the scale Of our universe. That border, That outer boundary Is imagination. The only known edge of existence The only one […]
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a conversation with the dinosaur at chicago o’hare airport
me: wow. dinosaur in chicago airport: hey. me: i feel a little loopy. have a three hour layover here because i missed my flight yesterday…only got a few hours of […]
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being there
1. I want to be present. Here, not always over there, or in my phone somewhere, or on my way somewhere else. This is the quality about Grace that I […]
Being Quiet
My mentor and friend Grace Lee Boggs died on Monday. I’ve been writing about her since then – poems, memories, what I learned. I’m not ready to post it yet. […]
Parable of the Sower Concert Review/Gush
Terry Marshall of Intelligent Mischief recently articulated this moment we’re in as a Black Renaissance. I concur – we are transforming pain into gold at an impossible speed. I keep […]
Closing Remarks to Environmental Grantmakers Association
These are my notes (roughly what I said) for framing the closing plenary of the EGA. Apocalypse is not in the future. It is a current condition. In places like […]
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everywhere so full (for Jake Brewer, rip)
everywhere was so full of people remembering what they’d been told to forget dying with regrets too soon or too late but never on time you were a man unafraid […]
Self Love as a Liberatory Practice for the Future
On Wednesday night I got to have a public conversation with new and old friends about self love. We spoke at Solespace, my favorite site store /community space in Oakland. […]
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black sci fi dreaming (report back from Ferguson is the Future)
so…princeton’s new african american studies department partnered with the octavia butler legacy network to offer up ferguson is the future, a black to the future sci fi love fest extravaganza […]
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