black peculiarities

notes + images / Khadijah Queen.

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Bloodroot plants can be used to heal or to harm. How do you use the powers available to you? https://squareup.com/market/khadijah-queen/bloodroot-1

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Fresh from the printer #awp14

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“And now each night, I count the stars. And each night I get the same number. And when the stars won't come to be counted, I count the holes they leave.” ― Amiri Baraka

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/01/hold_hold_hold_amiri_baraka_former_nj_poet_laureate_and_prolific_author_dead_at_79.html

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Once the patient knocks out, it's just me and this book stack and some organic rooibos #numi

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New broadsides from Anna Vitale, Anne Marie Rooney, Khadijah Queen, Michael Snediker, Allyson Paty & Danniel Schoonebeek, Angela Veronica Wong, and Crystal Curry available now!

Editions of 40

http://flying-object.org/product-category/broadsides-ephemera/

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If writing a novel has taught me anything it has taught me this: I will never again say ‘I am finishing a novel’ or ‘I’m almost done with my novel’ or ‘This is it! The last draft!’ or ‘I’m getting really close!’ Every time I have ever said, or even thought, any of those things the endpoint has almost immediately receded before me, mirage-like.

Laura van den Berg (via mttbll)

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I am happy to announce that Vintage Black Glamour - THE BOOK! -  is scheduled to be published in Spring 2014!  Starting today, you can register your interest in the book (registering is different from pre-ordering, which will be available starting early February) at vintageblackglamourbook.com. My publisher is Rocket 88 an imprint of London-based Essential Works, and after you register, you will be contacted by email in early 2014 with further details about the book and, if you wish, you may pre-order at that time. Once again, thank you so much! ~ Nichelle Gainer

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Happy to announce that I'm So Fine: a list of famous men and what I had on is now available for download! Cop it for $3 here: http://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/product/i-m-so-fine-a-list-of-famous-men-what-i-had-on-by-khadijah-queen

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CultureMUSIC: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm (1940s) 

The first integrated all women’s band in the United States.

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I'm so fine is now offline until further notice. A little Conduit as consolation.

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"What if someone had told me, thirty years ago: If you give up, now,  wanting to be an artist, he might love you all your life—what would I have said? I didn’t even have an art, it would come from out of our family’s life—  what could I have said: nothing will stop me.” 

—Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds

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“How can Hip-Hop be dead when Wu-Tang is Forever?”

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Life is like a box of Conduits… $10 if you buy one this week

https://squareup.com/market/khadijah-queen/conduit

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from This Earth, My Brother

'... and we pray;

shrieks abandoned by lonely road-sides

as the gunmen’s boots tramp.

I lift up the chalice of hyssop and tears"

Kofi Awoonor was born in Ghana in 1935.....

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Sample of work from my friend Dr. Bettina Judd's manuscript, PATIENT., soon to be published by Black Lawrence, winner of the Hudson Prize. Yes!

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Visit Original Link

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“He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven” by W. B. Yeats

Read by Tom Hiddleston

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"I have spread my dreams under your feet."