grateful to West Trade Review for featuring this quiet poem on home & heartbreak, familial distance & the desire for intimacy. 🤍

“Who’s Bad?” (1988) - Faith Ringgold

Rest In Power
brilliant funny gorgeous genius
Faith Ringgold

rest in power faith ringgold. a true visionary. thank you for your work 💜

Today is hard. Thinking about Michele Wallace, who lost her mother today as well. Faith Ringgold was a mother and modeled the complexity of it well.

I. Am. Confused. Rico Wade??? What is happening?? How are the people shaping our ears and memories being disappeared? Rest well sir. What a legacy. Not only does the south have something to say, most of what many of us say is from the south. Organized Noize amplified that.

considering deleting twitter and having my friend recap the timeline for me like it’s the daily paper

Introducing Virtue and Labor, the name above the terrace of my new home in Troina, Sicily. It will be one part family respite & one part refuge for persecuted global writers. I am giving wing to this majestic bird & hoping to welcome writers in 2025.

To the work!

Our March edition is out now!

Featuring: fiction by Aba Amissah Asibon, nonfiction by Elisha Oluyemi, poetry by Maelynn Ford, and photography by Abubakar Mustapha.
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Arthur Jafa photographed by me for the new issue of W Magazine ahead of his doubleheader shows at Gladstone and 52 Walker

Thanks AJ for coming by the studio and as always for the amazing chats about cinema, art and everything in between

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Photographs from the series “Gospel in Memphis” by Eric Mulet (mid-1990s)

This was a wonderful surprise for us - a really detailed and positive review for Sarah Connor Sarah is The Poet who Spells Her Name. for her book 'The Poet Spells Her Name'. A real boost and Tangie's words encapsulate this affecting collection!

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🔥A huge boost for the Bough and author Sarah Connor Sarah is The Poet who Spells Her Name. as 'The Poet Spells Her Name' has a barnstorming review by Poetry Wales guest editor Tangie Mitchell tangie mitchell 🔥

Thanks to Tangie, Dr George Sandifer-Smith Zoë Brigley & all involved.

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📍 A Sojourn for Harriet Jacobs

It’s not an NFT it’s a commissioned essay for Harriet Jacobs and you have to lay your burdens down and sojourn with 70 black feminists to our Jacobs’s sites of birth and freedom-making to have it. Thank you Michelle Lanier and Johnica Rivers

This is the most devastating post I have ever had to write. My beloved grandma passed away on Friday, March 15th. I am organizing a gofundme to pay for her memorial expenses. Please donate if you are able & share this tweet. Thank you all for loving her. gofund.me/8dff650c

Spending some time this afternoon with my contributors copy of Poetry Wales and the rich poetry in its pages. Also loved reading the editorials by Zoë Brigley tangie mitchell Taylor Edmonds. 🌸

forever in awe of the way tangie reaches into me and spotlights in me the little black girl and her big big heartx