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Articles by Roya Marsh
The Uncreation Story of a Black Man
Freddie Gray and i share the same birthday i must tell you this is not the first time a black man dies after locking eyes i must tell you how blessed we are to be hashtagged while breathing i must tell you a murderer’s breath is the homicide note no one ever writes i must tell you this is the uncreation story of a black man in a Christ-stained body i must tell you Freddie was genesis & on the 7th day he rested i must tell you when the city is on fire the summer comes early i must tell you i...
Sights and Sounds: April 28, 2022
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Not My Ancestors by Bettina Judd - Poems | Academy of American Poets
what it sounds like is a bird breaking small bones against glass. the least of them, a sparrow, of course. you’re about to serve dinner and this is the scene. blame the bird, the impertinent windows, try not to think of the inconvenience of blood splattering violet in the dusk. how can you eat after this? do not think of whom to blame when the least of us hurdles into the next moment. a pane opening into another. the least of us spoiling your meal. ~ the smell of it will be smoke and rank.
24 of the Best LGBTQ-Authored Books of 2020
One great thing about 2020: it saw a plethora of fantastic books by LGBTQ+ authors. In the spirit of gratitude, here are 24 of the best ones, from engrossing memoirs to poignant poetry, hilarious essays to lush fiction. Homie by Danez Smith Graywolf Press Homie: Poems bookshop.org $14.72 Danez Smith is a people’s poet, a word magician, a truth-teller and a rhythm queen.
Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran’s Decade of Fire by Roya Marsh - BOMB Magazine
Still from Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran’s Decade of Fire. (Red Nut Films, 2018) Decade of Fire is a remarkable tale of the Bronx’s rise from ash, standing to set the record straight about the fires that ravaged the borough in the late ’60s and ’70s. The documentary, directed by Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran, zones in on Irizarry’s South Bronx upbringing, while the whole of the film covers the Bronx fires and the constant neglect residents faced during that time.
National Poetry Month Playlist on Libro.fm
Skip content Life on Mars Poems By Tracy K. Smith Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith Length: 1 hour 22 minutes In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the...
"in broad dayliGht black girls look ghost"
Carefully, i arrange my disguise. It has been designed not to stand out . . . i decide to look like a poor Black woman. —Assata Shakur i’m good with my tongue. it makes me most visible. with a shut mouth I’m a good dresser.
dayliGht | Roya Marsh | Macmillan
Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race. Growing up, Roya Marsh was considered “tomboy passing." With an affinity for baggy clothes, cornrows, and bandanas, she came of age in an era when the wide spectrum of gender and sexuality was rarely acknowledged or discussed.
Ode to Fetty Wap (written after strip club) by Roya Marsh
A reading from the book of Willie Maxwell 679:1738 ... then Rap Gawd formed a man from the dust of the auto-tune &breathed into his nostrils the breath of Rémy Martin the man became Fetty Wap. Rap Gawd saw fit to make Fetty a counterpart. so he caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; while he was sleeping he took one of the man’s eyes then closed up the place with flesh. then the Rap Gawd made a woman from the eye he had taken out of the man.
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