I wrote this piece many years ago under the regime of Omar Al-Bashir in Sudan and revisited it during the 2018/2019 revolution. The poem speaks for itself in many ways, and is emblematic to me about how our past informs both our present and future.
Dalia Elhassan on "On Sudan National TV, a Woman Appears in Darfur" |
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Heidi Seaborn on Poets Painting with Agnes Martin's Brush
"The gallery holds seven Martin works, all acrylic paint on linen canvas, all painted in the early 1990s and gifted by the artist to the museum. The gallery was constructed according to Martin’s wishes. The paintings seem to crowd the spectator. Or perhaps it is the presence of poets I feel around me. Within the past year, three new Agnes Martin-inspired poetry collections by the acclaimed poets Lauren Camp, Victoria Chang and Brian Teare have arrived in the world."
via THE ADROIT JOURNAL |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Teare on Taylor Johnson’s Inheritance
"Maybe you already know inheritance is vexed by paradox. Boon or burden, boon and burden? Each of us enters Johnson’s book through that singular, seemingly never settled and always unsettling noun, holding a small flat object labeled Inheritance. A thing made and possessed by another, and now—is it really yours? A thing given, but was it freely chosen? 'Extraordinary limitation,' Johnson writes, 'playing freedom.'" |
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