Date: 2010
"A thought to mind, so to the string / plucked, or touched, or bowed, the music is, / a wrinkling of the air as immaterial / and brief as sunlight glancing on a wave."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)
Date: 2014
"To your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a collapsing mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"Those years of and before me and my brothers, the years of passage, plantation, migration, of Jim Crow segregation, of poverty, inner cities, profiling, of one in three, two jobs, boy, hey boy, each a felony, accumulate into the hours, inside our lives where we are all caught hanging, the rope i...
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: December 12, 2016
" And perhaps he speaks / of the nature of light, or the coils in my mind"
preview | full record— De la O, Marsha
Date: 2017
"There was a snowstorm that lasted three days / and a cavern of monochrome memory"
preview | full record— Burt, Stephanie