African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Since I’m remembering this, or making it up, there is only darkness; our bodies speaking. Eat, your pelvis tells me. I eat—savoring your...
African Poetry: Nyachiro Lydia Kasese
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Nyachiro Lydia Kasese’s Paper Dolls is filled with scenes of smoking, which are also scenes of gendering, degendering, and engendering. These scenes are...
Little Yellow Boy Giant, Terrorist
...in the Top 10 for national arts funding. When it comes to large-scale works in the public domain the city tends to favor exogenous creations rather than home-grown communities that...
World Melodrama: Opfergang, 1944
...let me know, and I'll try to find a way to get it to you. Omnia sunt communia, especially a century's worth of tears and bareback horseback riding.] You,...
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...The right-wing backlash against this Budweiser commercial is the best praise you can give it, like when Fox News described “No Fascist US” as “anti-Trump graffiti.” The ad...
African Poetry: Introduction
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
...Remix)”. This is a rough approximation of that mix, although the "Extended Death Match Remix" has a longer, woozier, beatless opening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scZeaErWVCY Damn, Snake’s bristly mind raced, she may be...
Jul, One Year Later
...is carried atop waves of friends, comrades, and collaborators, a Palestinian flag flying high and undaunted above it. From this day on we aren't just revolutionaries, we are artists....
Love Worth Fighting For
...among cheaply made goods and multinational brands. In retrospect, the song the Beatles came up with for the event is well-suited to that conundrum: “All You Need Is Love.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4p8qxGbpOk&feature=player_embedded...
The Novelty of African Poetry
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...given that its concern is that of the relationship between opacity and communication, with the act of trying to elaborate together - conspiring - as the mechanism between them, the...
African Poetry Fictions
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Keguro Macharia, "African Poetry: Introduction": The story of African poetry, if is to be told, will be the accumulation of very stories: very...
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
...emphatically, "Politics should stay out of sport." An All Blacks marketing campaign by Adidas in 2008. The website, www.thisisnotajersey.com, gave fans the opportunity to have their name literally etched onto...
Hot or Not?
...on carrying on. The common experience of going through a weather-related emergency with millions of other people heightens its exceptionalism. It’s an important and necessary pause button on social priorities....
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
...respond with vitriolic jeers as the police struggle to prevent a riot.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGH5IyKQn98 Elsewhere: Rashad Shabazz, 'Black Militancy: Notes From the Underground' For a generation of young activists, the...
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...distanced from its more important meaning, namely, as a method that thinks the historical determinations and processes by which the apparently ahistorical comes to be or be inflected. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8xjJl6M-Sg In...