When the poet Frank Bidart came to speak at my father’s memorial service in New Brunswick, New Jersey, I was touched. Bidart had been my father’s favorite student at The University of Riverside in California and was often the subject of dinner-table conversation. After moving to New Jersey, where my Mayflower father taught at Rutgers, [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Just Down City
February 22, 2012 – 3:59 pm
Text by Annie DeWitt, images by Jerome Jakubiec My mother never said, Don’t Usher The Good Times In. She never took the pot from my hand and said, Don’t Beat On It With A Stick. Don’t Make Noise. She never threw up the window shade and said, Don’t Look Out. Or, I Remember Chilly [...]
Benjamin Gantcher
February 15, 2012 – 4:16 am
On the Trail of the Book At dawn stanchions stand at attention when the pearl sky with smudges stretches The bridge is the zone of dull shadows nosing around the washed out snapshot where the word oblivion affixes wings to the paperboy and the road is a partisan smuggling colored thread inside the cinder garden [...]
A Valentine’s Day Soundtrack From ESP
February 14, 2012 – 12:05 pm
Love is War for Miles Aquarius Heaven… Blu and Exile (letter) (Quit it) Nat Adderley (Give me my month) Blake (Mike and the Sensations) Nico Jaar (Anything Goes/You used to think) Erica Pomerance (The Idea of Ancestry) Etheridge Knight Blue and Exile (Don’t be…) (Tia) Arthur Nunes Gonjasufi (Love of Reign) (Black Christ [...]
État de Siege
February 9, 2012 – 2:21 pm
Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, and sound artist. Her debut collection of poems Negro League Baseball was published by Fence Books last year. Brian W. Rogers is an artist, writer, and musician whose work most recently appeared in the London group show “A Sunken Trembling Recalled Dimly.” Together they have teamed up to form État de Siege (ÉSP) [...]
