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Alison Granucci -- Lectures Readings Illuminations
Illuminations
George Floyd
You can be a bother who dyes
his hair Dennis Rodman blue
in the face of the man kneeling in blue
in the face the music of his wrist-
watch your mouth is little more
than a door being knocked
out of the ring of fire around
the afternoon came evening’s bell
of the ball and chain around the neck
of the unarmed brother ground down
to gunpowder dirt can be inhaled read more »
Speaker News
Financial Times
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey recounts a family history of struggle, resistance, and hope – read the full piece here.
Heron Barks
Read Rowan Ricardo Phillips' new poem: "Remember the heat, how it burns the back/of the throat as night screams his name."
New York Times
Jericho Brown reflects on the history of Pride Month and weighs in on this complicated moment for the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
New York Times
Read "Weather" by Claudia Rankine: "Turns out/in a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher, is without."
New York Times
Read "Say Thank You I'm Sorry" by Jericho Brown: "I’d like us to rethink/What it is to be a nation."
