Category Archives: Lit Review

all the celebrities were walking by the reporter asked how would youdescribe yourself? they all replied “timeless”barely taking the time to stop but not khan younis – he stopped looked the reporter dead in the eye and told everything he was aboutsome of us don’t have the pleasure of timelessness – some of us haveContinue reading “timeless”

A Practical Appraisal of Palestinian Violence – Steve Salaita — Read on stevesalaita.com/a-practical-appraisal-of-palestinian-violence/

a late daughtering. a late offering to didi. didi being short for diana. a statue the goddess or the man who knew i fixed a bead on the containment of all human emotions. slowly tried to breathe but found every efforts cut short cut dreams cut grasses savory lights beamed lights in from above theContinue reading “a late daughtering”

my mother is learning to playall the things she couldn’t play my mother is learning to sayall the things she couldn’t say and i am witness to this glorious glorious woman whatever we make we make together i am witness

While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed. — Read on redsails.org/the-pitfalls-of-liberalism/

An excerpt from Lucinda Williams’s memoir “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” about being in love with the poet Frank Stanford, and about his suicide. — Read on http://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-poet-who-became-my-muse

I argue that Blackness is a “structural location” peculiar to the intersection of capitalist exploitation and anti-Black racialization. — Read on caribbeanphilosophy.org/blog/structural-location-of-blackness

your love rocks me to sleep and wakes me up againi’m so so lucky!

My last message, June 1957 — Read on credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b160-i466