Tyehimba Jess at Bowdoin College
Tyehimba Jess recorded live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, September 7, 2006, and made possible by a grant from The Davis Family Foundation.
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called: Eurydice
(A young Black woman remembers 1870) 1. I do not come when called Mostly I materialize Dark as a kiss incarnate again and again sometimes twice in one life now mother now the burnt sugar sweet of a wide-eyed wide-hipped too-young lover now concubine now priest I do not come […]
Mandate
(After Patrick Rosal) To laugh at weaker boys (or at least the less sharp-tongued) to kick ball till the moon rose or something vital bled – we lived To wait like predator for the first note of a slow jam to grind ourselves into the wall with a pretty girl […]
what the water gave me
(after Frida Kahlo) The water gave me madness incessant humming blood the water remembers the torn torso melting through a seashell’s portholes the quadrangular tight-rope of death disease slaughtered women the trade in gold and spirit of five hundred nations drifting the water remembers the water is […]
Roger Bonair-Agard Q&A on the genesis and form of his poem, called: Eurydice
Roger Bonair-Agard author of the forthcoming collection, tarnish and masquerade, discusses the genesis and form of his poem, called: Eurydice.
Roger Bonair-Agard Q&A discusses form
Roger Bonair-Agard author of the forthcoming collection, tarnish and masquerade, discusses how he determines the form a poem will take.
Roger Bonair-Agard Q&A on his current poetry projects
Roger Bonair-Agard author of the forthcoming collection, tarnish and masquerade, talks about his current poetry projects.
Grass Isn’t Mowed on Weekends
What first comes across our minds About the stocky Mexican Pushing a mower across the lawn […]