Poetry Blog

[jtsnow99]

The Line

Where is it Is it up Is it down Always trying to find it Never wanna cross it It's somewhere in between But how do I know when I am there #theline

[brandon-rapp]

The girls are eager to transform him with a kiss; the boys eager to see him on the basketball court. But their principal greets him with a “Get the Hell out of here!” This is a vivid event and clearly shows the impacts of racism in a school setting.

Terrance Hayes, Segregate.

#hate # racism

(via brandon-rapp)

[rsparksblog]

"The sky shook off his clothes and was brilliant. I tell you it was necessary: violence had to preface such beauty." Optimism impacts the way people view things. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Innocence and compassion is brought out after destruction.

No Ararat. Ricky Laurentiis.  (via rsparksblog)

[katiechillinsky]

"To those who died on the Coast. This is a memory of the Coast: to each his own recollections, her reclamations, their restorations, the return of the Coast.” Remembering the past and learning from it is one of the most important lessons to remember.

-“Liturgy of the Mississippi Gulf Coast”, Natasha Tretheway

#GulfCoast #Katrina #RememberingVictims #Restoring #Surviving

(via katiechillinsky)

[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"

[jtsnow99]

"I woke up, I asked why"

Flynn, "seven testimonies (redacted)"

[jtsnow99]

""If your enemies are hungry, feed them.""

Girmay, "Arroz Poetica"

[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"

[jtsnow99]

"He will tell you the distance between heartbreak and rage."

Gay, "Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay is 

Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes 

and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom 

Looks Anything Alike"

[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"

[jtsnow99]

"and I could feel the nation shaping, it was something about the collective dream of the rich land and the violent wanting—"

Levin, "Techno"

[jtsnow99]

"...until someone calls time and they’re done, and everything becomes what it was"

Hooch, "The court of Forgetting"

[jtsnow99]

"This is a memory of the Coast: to each his own recollections, her reclamations, their restorations, the return of the Coast."

Tretheway, "Liturgy to the Mississippi Gulf Coast"

[jtsnow99]

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

Tretheway, "Theories of Space and Time"

[jtsnow99]

"I returned to a country battlefield where colored troops fought and died—"

Tretheway, "South"

[jtsnow99]

"My ancestors didn’t emigrate. Why would anyone leave their native land?"

Terrance Hayes, "What I Am"

[kaleymeyers]

Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been This quote idolizes the idea of being able to live life while trying to comprehend all it has to offer.

"Theories of Space and Time" -Threthewey (via kaleymeyers)