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[jtsnow99]

"I know all these men. I was born in May and Texas hasn’t changed.”

Scafidi, “Onlookers with the Burning Body of Jesse Washington” (via jtsnow99)

[jtsnow99]

"Your Du Bois (pronounced Du BWAH)?”

Gay, “Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black 

Friend by the White Woman He Briefly Dated, A Monologue”

(via jtsnow99)

[jtsnow99]

"I held on to my mother’s hand. I held on to my mother holding her mother’s hand. I didn’t dream this.”

Laurentiis, “No Ararat” (via jtsnow99)

[poetryofresistance]

"Where Whitman rejoices in giving oneself to society, Ginsberg is consumed by the anxiety that comes along with this sacrifice. He dwells on the inevitable aftermath of being a part of something bigger than yourself: that you yourself don’t exist."

The Laurel Tree Cudgel: War and Walt Whitman in Allen Ginsberg’s “America” (via poetryofresistance)

[jakestankey54]

" I didn’t dream this. Terrible noise. Terrible hollering. I slept through the hollering. Terrible wind-against-earth."

 Ricky Laurentiis, “No Ararat”

[katiechillinsky]

'If your enemies are hungry, feed them.' But to be perfectly clear, my enemies are not hungry.

-“Arroz Poetica”, Aracelis Girmay

#privileged #notequal #war #enemies

(via katiechillinsky)

[jakestankey54]

"My eyesight is years I see up yes did this Yes you this I saw"

seven testimonies (redacted) NICK FLYNN

[jakestankey54]

"My enemies eat meats & vegetables at tables in white houses where candles blaze, cast shadows of crosses, & flowers."

Arroz Poetica ARACELIS GIRMAY

[jakestankey54]

"Do you know anything about your people?"

ROSS GAY "Some Instructions"

[jakestankey54]

"Our eyes. Where you see misunderstanding"

"Within Two Weeks" ROSS GAY

[jakestankey54]

"I was thinking how the songs coming from the radio were like the speech of a single human American psyche"

Techno DANA LEVIN

[jakestankey54]

"...here in the photograph I am tired of looking at. In which there is no woman whatsoever, especially not the mother of Jesse Washington whose charred body hangs from a chain in a chestnut tree in Waco Texas in 1916."

Onlookers with the Burning Body of Jesse Washington STEVE SCAFIDI

[jakestankey54]

"They are all sweat, hustle, break, forgetting minutes, hours, deaths they’ve inhaled"

The Court of Forgetting JAMES HOCH

[jakestankey54]

"palmettos—symbols of victory or defiance, over and over"

South NATASHA TRETHEWEY

[jakestankey54]

Bring only what you must carry—tome of memory, its random blank pages.

Theories of Space and Time NATASHA TRETHEWEY

[jakestankey54]

"My parents would have had me believe there was no such thing as race"

Root TERRANCE HAYES

[jakestankey54]

" 'You belong in our swamps not our schools!" they rage"

TERRANCE HAYES

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