peace • poems

poetic excerpts... part four

poetry only, audio included

april 2025 • audio, 2:31

stall[ed] part three

drips resist canvas
bleeding straits etched
canals echoed three millennia
chants haunt recombinant [longing]

what has not been given
what offers have not been taken
from; where requests shake me down

one: eye close, twice
two: lip seal

no entry
no exit

nothing sees
nothing leaves
nothing reverberated

feeling from itself

skin weighed against wind
repels by rain with saturation
separation; a body within bodies

embodied ease

constrained by need
limited with demands

of nourishment
of space
of air

existence is a reciprocal
relationship of elemental bonds

above now

abandons orientation
arbors direction toward

a stillness in motion

how to stand in place and never stop being
moved, moving; a canopy in billowed
movement [emotion]

unseen
unspoken
un...

silence

felt.

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professor emerita of english
vanderbilt university
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will alexander
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poet-in-residence
beyond baroque literary arts center, venice, california
fred moten
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professor of performance studies + comparative literature
new york university
josé esteban muñoz
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1967 to 2013 • professor of performance studies
new york university
saidiya hartman
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university professor
columbia university
evie shockley
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zora neale hurston distinguished professor of english
rutgers university
morgan parker
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assistant professor of english literature
swarthmore college
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novelist, writing full time in brooklyn
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professor emerita
stanford university
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ebenezer fitch professor of humanities
williams college
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associate professor of aesthetics & poetics
university of california, santa cruz
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