Interviews and Features
blue note no. 14/blue note no. 20/blue note no. 13/blue note. no. 11/blue note no. 1
where is the Black freedomsong that does not drown meout.
You Must Care For Us: Dayvin Hallmon and the Black String Triage Ensemble
The viola has been used to represent loyalty. The cello has been used to represent the human soul. The bass, is what makes us as humans, dance.
Temazcal/Complicated Love
Sometimes, she’ll rest her feet on my shoulders, bold, steady. I flex my arms until they lose feeling.
times you just cannot name (not yet died) / the story of Aganju, the birth of Bennu
the volcano is much more water than firethe tears tearing across the face of the earth
American Ballad
I try to remember what I know about love, but every time I fall in love, I forget.
Nina Simone Who Drinks Milk at the Liquor Bar is Still Singing in Liberia
The musical notes from her piano linger in our souls, perennial.
Re-Membering Nourishment
When I bite into a tender, pink shrimp, seasoned with salt, pepper, celery, paprika and bright with lemon, I return to a day of congregation in my family after church.
(D)iscipline(R)hythm(U)nity(M)usic: Recreating Our Circle of Trust
May our circle remain unbroken.
Significations
Wandering creates wonder. Wondering generates new possibilities, which lead us to new realities and new worlds.
What Precious Memories Now Linger: Notes on Amazing Grace
When we gaze into her eyes, they are still. She does not smile. This is not entertainment.
Symbols of Resistance in a Temple to the Imagination: The Murals of Texas Southern University
The artwork created and maintained at TSU served as a reminder of the radical movements that were part of shaping the community.
Coffee/Son of the Sun/Ephemeral
and yet each spark does not createa conflagration, merely the promiseof self-evolution.
Call to Cutting/Tanka X./zannenda/Tanka IV.
stretched past desire,he construes your body’s lines
When It Hurts to Dance/Adornment/Catharsis/Out of Dust and Thorns
Another revolution ...Has been born... Out of dust... Out of thorns
September 23rd/Love Poem/Homage
They are a balm for a scraped heart,and will mend torn fabric.Stopping grief and fueling our survival
sunrise/sunset / real / the delta / the black rest (a sketch)
they like the way youwear your black. and blue. splashed withgarnet. art is you