Day 29-30 Song of My Softening by Omotara James.
From “Museum of What Is Owed” - “There will be installations: video, visual, fresco, mixed media, for every unwanted hour I survived being unwanted.”
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Day 28/31 - Helium by Rudy Francisco.
From “ I Bet the Trees Are Thinking” - “If they’re willing to pay three dollars a gallon for gas, imagine how much we can charge them for oxygen.”
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Day 27/31 - We Are Owed by Ariana Brown.
From “Why I Want To Know What Yanga Looked Like” - “…and when I speak about songs I am always speaking about freedom.”
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Days 25 & 26 - Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
From “In Case of Emergency” - “This is how you keep yourself safe, keep parts of yourself in different boxes. Trust no one with everything.”
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Day 24/31 - Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either by Marisa Tirado.
From “Leave This Place” - “All I crave is the fullness from a canoe, the exhale from shore, to row memory, churning it thick…”
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Day 23 savings time by Roya Marsh.
From “i must tell you” - “I must tell you when i pray i keep one eye cracked & just a bit of space between my palms hoping a bit of God will seep through.”
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Day 19 - 22 Blue Laws by Kevin Young.
From, “Chamber Music” - “Upright Bass
Love that place
Where your hips hits
Your waist
& my head fits
Perfect, rests
Like music”
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18/31 - There Are Girls Like Lions.
From “Loose Woman” - Sandra Cisneros. “ I’m an aim-well,
shoot-sharp, sharp-tongued, fast-speaking, foot-loose, loose-tongued, let-loose, woman-on-the-loose, loose woman. Beware, honey.”
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Day 17/31 - EYES BOTTLE DARK with a MOUTHFUL of FLOWERS by Jake Skeets.
From “Thieving Ceremony” - “To them we are flesh is still soot, still furnace, still jet, still a cornstalk and juniper tree left burning.”
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Day 14 - 16 - The Art of Losing edited by Kevin Young.
From “Autumn Passage” - Elizabeth Alexander. “…the body that can no longer even make fever but nonetheless burns florid and bright and magnificent as it dims, as it shrinks, as it turns to something else.”
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Day 11 -13 - Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry by Nikky Finney.
From “The Good Fight” - “You with your little ivory-tipped six shooter words, pointed at our dream-filled, churning-up-the-hill, wanting-to-be-better hearts…”
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Day 10/31 - 1919 by Eve L. Ewing.
From “this is a map” - “this is a map of my city, here are the places in my city where I dare not go.”
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Day 8/31 - Papi Pichón by Dimitri Reyes.
From, Papi Pichón as “Boy Finding His Way”.
“Either way, the question stands, what is it to be Indio when the many shades of brown become another gray area?”
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Day 7/31 - Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow - Noor Hindi.
From “Confession” - “My family comes from a land that does not exist on colonizers’ maps.”
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Day 6/31 - Receta - Mario José Pagán Morales.
From “True Story, 1986”
“I’m often torn between flying and landing
not sure which one is more graceful”
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Day 5/31 - Erase The Patriarchy edited by Isobel O’Hare.
From “Chris Sacca: No Imbalance of Power” by Elizabeth Mehl Greene. - “I knew well to dispute the welcome of strong women in our industry.”
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Day 4/31 - Amelia: Poems of Love and Resistance - Rafael Landrón.
From “Coney Island” - “…you can never own a hurricane. You can’t own the feeling right before that drop.”
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Day 3/31 You Better Be Lightning - Andrea Gibson.
From “Wellness Check”. - “Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?”
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Day 2/31: Poppies for Palestine - El Ibrahim Dawud & Katalina Rodriguez - ELKAT Productions.
From “Together” by Muhammad Eli. “The watermelon reminds me of the Palestinian flag. The flag reminds me of a kite flying in the sky.”
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Day 1/31 Finna by Nate Marshall.
From “sweet breath”.
“…this pet name we exchange will make the voyeur think animal or abomination & i have no reason to correct when what we on this eve could be either or both.”
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