Monday, October 31, 2022
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Friday, October 28, 2022
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
PAMELA MORDECAI ~
Yellow Girl Blues
for Jane King
My mama she done told me
she tell me every day
no mind your skin is yellow
you're a nigger anyway.
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues
I walking on the muddy road
in my sampata shoes.
So I grew up a nigger
please check on my behind,
my mouth, my nose, my curly
hair— I'm glad to know my kind.
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues.
I walking on the muddy road
in my sampata shoes.
And I go to America
and join in all the fights
sit in and demonstrate
and go to jail for Civil Rights.
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues.
I walk through so much macca
there's holes in all my shoes.
Dr King say it don't matter
he say we all is one —
the hose don't know the difference
nor the truncheon, nor the gun.
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues.
I feel the firewater
as it soak in through my shoes.
Now I come north to Canada
my story it is true
they look me in my face and say
"White woman, who is you?"
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues.
I walking in the macca still
and my own take away my shoes.
______________
A Fierce Green Place
New and Selected Poems
New Directions, 2022
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Monday, October 24, 2022
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Saturday, October 22, 2022
PETER SCHJELDAHL ~
Peter Schjeldahl with his wife, Brooke Alderson, in 1981. Mr. Schjeldahl wrote about New York’s art world with undiminished enthusiasm for more than half a century.Credit...Sheree Rose
March 20, 1942 (Fargo, N.D.) ~ NY. 2022
Friday, October 21, 2022
Thursday, October 20, 2022
RON PADGETT ~
Another Thing That Annoys Me
The spelling of 40. We have four and fourteen, and then, for
no reason I know of, the u is dropped and we're left with forty,
not to mention the schizophrenic forty-four. Most annoying, as
Sei Shōnagon would say.
__________________
Ron Padgett
Dot
2022
photograph ~ Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
BOB ARNOLD'S : TO BE OF USE ~
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Monday, October 17, 2022
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Saturday, October 15, 2022
LINDA NOCHLIN ~
Linda Nochlin teaching an art history class, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1959. Archives & Special Collections, Vassar College Library.
Friday, October 14, 2022
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
ANDREW SCHELLING'S : PERSEPHONE THY ANCIENT MIDDEN ~
PERSEPHONE THY ANCIENT MIDDEN