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: 2014
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: March, 2014
"my good mother, // her mind a trail of crumbs / in a woods flocked with birds."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Date: March, 2014
"Culture: a kind of knife: / cuts one way opens / your brain to a certain / breed of light shaves / consciousness to its // purpose, its cross."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Date: March, 2014
"Memory, / a jar of flies. Spin off the lid."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Date: March, 2014
"O, bold, / bare legs of women / upon which my soul beads / like sweat."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Date: 2015
"It's never really dark
anyway, not even inside the skull"
preview | full record— Young, Dean (b. 1955)
Date: 2015
"And yes, mortal knells / in sleepless hours, hollow knocks of empty / boats against a dock but still the mind / is a meadow, the heart an ocean even though / it burns."
preview | full record— Young, Dean (b. 1955)
Date: 2016
"You were one of them, / weren't you, with death / itching in the brain like a cloud of midges?"
preview | full record— Guest, Paul