1/25/2020 POETRY: SÂKIHITOWIN AWÂSISto cope it’s all unseasonal rains winter in the Great Lakes these days in niibin the boreal is ablaze the amazon and outback aflame increasing tsunamis and earthquakes and all we can do is yell CLIMATE CHANGE what else do we say? while the US keeps taking brown babies away numbered like the West Bank Bantustans Japanese internment camps Auschwitz the Indian act our migration routes are older than your borders we have cultural items older than your legal orders this is natural law renaissance embodying ancestors’ excellence bringing land back on ready when RCMP attack Unist’ot’en bimaadiziwin resistance is a way of living Sâkihitowin Awâsis is a Michif Anishinaabe two-spirit water protector, geographer, and spoken word artist from the pine marten clan. She has contributed poetry to Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, Red Rising Magazine, kimiwan ‘zine, and Introducing Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians for Dummies. She is continually inspired by acts of decolonization, Indigenous resurgence, and community resistance. Follow @awan.ikwe.
1/25/2020 POETRY: EMILY LUSCREAMING INTO A PIANO … The pictures captured a mood of as much astonishment as joy; it was as if the delegates could not quite believe they had succeeded in reaching an agreement of such significance. - Amitav Ghosh Recalling decision 1 / CP.17 on the establishment of a room wide enough to hold your imagining. Like the moon fallen onto the field, new & mistaken by my aunt for a spaceship. Also recalling relevant decisions to respond to everything by screaming. Rain lines. Parts per million diluted light. Each acre along this river & if there are still children blowing tufts int o forg iv e n e s s Welcoming the adoption of planned repairs for the south entrance north alley west gate. Recognizing that even in crossing towards it I would stubbornly remain a parallel incident. Reimagining no one there. Back bicycle wheel spinning hillside. Throwing the moon. Acknowledging that agreeing to uphold & promote revisions ought to be enough this time. Singing. "Screaming into a Piano" previously appeared in a chapbook Night Leaves Nothing New (Baseline Press Oct 2019) Emily Lu earned her B.Sc. at the University of Toronto and her M.D. at Queen’s University. Currently completing her postgraduate training in psychiatry, she lives in London, Ontario. Night Leaves Nothing New (Baseline Press) is her first chapbook.
1/24/2020 PHOTOGRAPHY: KEVIN ADONIS BROWNETHE COAST The aesthetics of environmental erasure—of what goes, what remains, and what is brought back to us on the tide. Kevin Adonis Browne is a Caribbean American photographer, writer, and speaker. His award-winning visual and written work exist at the intersection of fine art, documentary, street photography, creative nonfiction, and memoir in what he calls: A discourse on the legacies of light as a way to understand the poetics of Caribbean culture.”
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, he attended Presentation College in the southern city of San Fernando. In 1990, he emigrated to the United States, settling in the Bronx and Brooklyn. In 2003, he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Medgar Evers College (CUNY) in Brooklyn, later earning a Master of Arts in English in 2006 and a PhD in English in 2009 from The Pennsylvania State University. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Syracuse University, and Bentley University. In 2017, he returned to Trinidad and Tobago, where he teaches at the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine). He is co-founder of the Caribbean Memory Project and is the author of two books: Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean (2013) and HIGH MAS: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture (2018), which won the prestigious Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature in 2019. Following a successful launch in the streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad, he has had solo exhibitions in the United States and the United Kingdom. |
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