Dear Mr. Samuel Delany, I didn’t start with Dhalgren; I had to build up to that. I started with a slender, beautiful volume containing Nova and Babel-17, on display next […]
Year: 2015
your pain is your own
my pain is my own. i have been aware, lately and again, of the desire to compare pain. i think science fictionally, so i often live in a mythological world […]
afrofuturism and #blackspring (new school, #afroturismtns)
welcome to #blackspring! today as we speak there are actions happening across the country, and here in new york, a massive round of future claiming. we tend to think and […]
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love in space (30/30)
prompt: write a poem backwards a love which grows us up a world which holds us tender all of existence is in the sweet you cannot swallow heart, get soft […]
come to obsidian {propaganda} (29/30)
prompt: write a review propaganda distributed on earth during the sixth century of racialized global class warfare. dismissed by many as escapist fantasy…but not all. forget that fertile place called […]
from earth to obsidian (28/30)
prompt: write a poem about bridges. A bridge is a powerful metaphor, and when you start looking for bridges in poems, you find them everywhere. Your poem could be about […]
24-27/30, poems
catching up on poems. home to e— 24/30 going off prompt to share queen aya’s first love poem of her second affair with e— in the end coming home was […]
two of keys (23/30)
prompt: take a chance, literally. Find a deck of cards (I used thecollective tarot), shuffle it, and take a card – any card! Make a poem from it. … from […]
obsidian is the world (22/30)
Write a pastoral poem (a Shepherd or shepherdess on nature and love) (on earth day, a poem about loving a planet) … baya is floating the vertical fields she sings […]
Redacted (21/30)
Our prompt for today (optional, as always) is an old favorite – the erasure! This involves taking a pre-existing text and blacking out or erasing words, while leaving the placement […]