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Patricia Smith Breaks Down “Hip-Hop Ghazal”
Originally posted on Poetry Genius: In a beautiful convergence of hip-hop and poetry, teacher, poet, and overall “word woman” extraordinaire, Patricia Smith, has shed light on her “Hip-Hop Ghazal” on Rap Genius. What’s a ghazal, you ask? Read the annotations to find out! Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked…
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The Rabbit Sign
We were walking to the conference building, from work to work, and out of the blue we spotted a small brown rabbit, about the size of your hand hopping in-between the flowers close to the station. It was so random and disgustingly cute. We just stood there and took in the moment. Scurrying we go…
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Charcoal and watercolor
I found some charcoal pencils in the university bookshop yesterday. I was beyond excited. The minute I had my space this morning, out they came to jump around a page from Bambi’s schetsboek. Inexplicable joy followed…
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Top 10 Children’s Apps April 2013
I had promised several subscribers the list of our favorite apps for children. We, indeed, use many apps – try them, test them, and see what we can use for fun, play, as well as, for constructive speech therapy and other pre-school, pre-kindergarten learning goals. I have avoided the popular ones like Angry Birds and…
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CSAAM April 2013: Touch – A Ghazal
I was asked by Kiran Manral if I would like to contribute to the Child Sexual Abuse Awareness month April 2013. I greatly admire Kiran’s work with India Helps and Child Sexual Abuse Awareness so I was deeply moved that she thought of me as someone who could possibly contribute. I had done a semi-fictional account…
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New Mantra
theflyinglota: After finishing our assigned readings from the Subaltern Studies Collective this week, we were complaining about how a particular piece by Spivak was incomprehensible. Our professor then proceeded to treat us to an amusing anecdote where one of Spivak’s students had complained about much the same in her class: Spivak’s reponse? “Don’t fetishize…
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For The Dead by Adrienne Rich
tenfiretrucks: I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself I have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill…
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Republic of the Imagination: The Map
republicoftheimagination: By Elizabeth Bishop Land lies in water; it is shadowed green. Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges where weeds hang to the simple blue from green. Or does the land lean down to lift the sea from under, drawing it unperturbed around itself? Along… Republic…
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Just words
He destroys my tools And I let him keep his word Just words.
