Afghan Women’s Writers Project: 3 Brooklyn Shows this Weekend
Short and Sweet: Come! Performing with the Afghan Women’s Writers Project has already been uplifting. Truly. Please, if you can make it, come out to see us speak the words of women writers from...
View Articleon sound: oh etta & pumped up kicks
etta james’ funeral today in los angeles, rip to one of the greatest vessels of sound to ever live. i just read a quality obit on etta james, click here to read it. got me thinking of sound, and of...
View Articleroll the dice: miles and miles
a quick note. today in the times i came across an obit on soprano camilla williams, the first african american woman to secure a contract with a major u.s. opera company. but see she never really got...
View Articlesirens for whitney houston: february love poems, winter in brooklyn poems
february love poems, winter in brooklyn poems, and also, a poem for whitney, about the sirens. for whitney all i hear is sirens red white & blue flashlights on mermaids dashed against the cross...
View Articlerihanna and chris: flags at half mast in jersey for whitney
this post used to have a clip from when kevin costner spoke so movingly at whitney houston’s wake this past weekend in jersey. he kept saying how she would say how she hoped she was good enough. good...
View Articlepoems from prison
what about when you sweat and then wash under a clean faucet until the very thought of you is open wide bee hives pores drip honey down her sides what about when you cry so many do yoga, but why c...
View Articlelittle dragon
this song by little dragon has me riveted: nail shop too young to get nails too young to do your own hair so we did them as soon as we could flying on half formed wings what power in doing grown up...
View Articleone by one, like a gypsy: poems from jamaica
my fingers have been itching with poems lately, and now that i’m back sharing, the digits are twitching with readiness. so, life keeps handing me these tests. you too? and i keep taking them, why,...
View Articlesun from a whisper of a winter
maroon all through she is rajasthani blue desert sky a natural hue im am also speaking to you future you audiences they clap hands they clap faces they break into tears looking forward to all the years...
View Articleon jazz, by roopa sing
this jazz this education this tango this ache this wriggle and shake this glide and wind this journey this learning oh, this learning, this time keeping and keeping this time Filed under: politics
View ArticleChanging Site for Maintenance
Hi readers, I’m curating this blog, doing some constructive editing in preparation for linking this site to a website I am developing: soundlawstudio.com. In the meanwhile, thank you for visiting....
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