It seems so romantic and cute to get started
But I need to finish my next book
Containing complete thoughts not part-time wants
Knowing Marvin Gaye died the night before his birth
Is why I hurry and you worry that my life work may kill me
Before you ever get a chance to kiss my face
When I really just need my voice hugged
My spirit loved
And a little time to work being a woman
Into my busy schedule …
No one will know we really want to fly south for the winter
With the rest of the black-eyed birds.
The poet on her reimagined version of Vyasa’s Mahabharata and the human cost of war.
A portrait of Langston Hughes and Black queer Harlem.
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Featuring interviews with Tim Roth, Amy Hempel, Emmylou Harris, Matthew Ritchie, Wallace Shawn, Christian Wolff, Gilles Peress, Kendall Thomas, and George Walker.
I don’t think an artist and a shaman actually have that much difference if we go back, way back, in time. Today, it’s just gotten so wrapped up in intellectual stuff that we’ve gotten far away from a basic truth about what artists do in the world.
Lucy Dodd
