"Rock Head" is inspired by two pieces, one from David Hammond and one from Simone Leigh, that were displayed at the RISD museum in proximity and relation to several Egyptian pieces that brought into conversation the relations of the African diaspora.
Matthew Shenoda on "Rock Head" |
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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Our Readers
"I love how in Jane Miller’s poem 'The Missing Apricot Tree' memory branches off into several tangents, and as a reader I am suspended in both a freedom that was youth (the speaker’s and mine) and a feeling of freedom that is from an older age. While time whirls us along, our minds change and memory loosens inside our lives: And a missing apricot tree/becomes as massive as the past. In some ways, it does not matter if what we remember actually happened: we evolve as do our images, and as imagination feeds into memory a new thing is born: This stick will have to be a tree."
Elizabeth Jacobson |
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"Poet Cyrus Cassells Receives $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize for ‘Exceptional Talent’"
"An admired and longtime poet whose subjects range from school integration to the memories of Holocaust survivors has won a $100,000 prize given for 'exceptional talent.' Poets & Writers announced Monday that Cyrus Cassells is this year’s winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, which was established in 2007 and has been previously awarded to Joy Harjo, Sonia Sanchez, and Carl Phillips among others. A former Texas poet laureate, Cassells has published 11 books, including More Than Peace and Cypresses, Soul Make a Path Through Shouting and the compilation Everything in Life is Resurrection. "
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