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March 11, 2003--Dispatch
New Cultura Piece: just gimme a fix
by Johnita Anthony
my hair begged to be straightened out of its crooked ways. spank me, tie me up, deny me, get control. "just gimme a fix," it said, "cause Kinky Reggae gots to go." and in the fashion of a true addict, i proceeded to the salon for a relaxer...
November 13, 2002--Coltura Words Column: Fact & Fiction by Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
Born Again
by Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
I grew up in an Evangelical Christian period of my mother's life. Born a few years earlier, I would have been weeding her pot garden; born a few years later, I'd have been accessing...
October
29, 2002 -- New Dispatch Coltura Words As part of our Active Knowledge Program La Lutta NMC members have been working with schools all across the country.
Recently, a La Lutta NMC contributor, the poet Amy Chozick, spoke at Washington Iriving High School. Amy's student guide
for the day was a dynamic, creative young man named Kareem. This is the first of what we hope are many more submissions from Kareem and the hundreds of students we have worked with this past year. APD, La Lutta NMC.
Untitled
by Kareem, Washington Irving High School
Its getting everybody sick and im gettin sik wit it
Its hard to see our people die in front of our eyes its not a surprise
This whole world is full of demise
THis whole world is dyin from all types of S***...
October
1, 2002 -- -- New Dispatch Coltura Words
New Coltura Words Piece:
LOCKED
By Amy Chozick
Tight coarse curls,
pubic hair in ponytails,
string ringlets Elmer's-glued to the temples,
only white girl with a 'fro,
nappy...
July
24, 2002 -- New Coltura Words Piece:
Hunters and Gatherers
By Bridget Cross
From now on, I only want to remember
that part of you that pauses
in our kitchen, knife hanging
over rows...
July
22, 2002 -- New Coltura Column: Fact
& Fiction by Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
Retro-Rubbernecking in Pink Bowling Shoes
By Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
Since my arrival, I have felt perpetually redundant in my uber-hip new
neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. There is nothing like sitting
in a cafe that is named after a part of speech ¾ and realizing that you
are part of the 80% of double-decaf-skinny-Americano-sippers writing in
a journal. Here begins a new chapter of Emily Post place setting ¾ ashtray
on the left, latte on the right, journal tilted, three inches from the
sticky.......
May 3, 2002 -- New Coltura Column:
Fact & Fiction by Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
Pickled
By Phoebe Damrosch-Williams
A few years ago my mother asked me to help pickle her uterus. As she had
imperiously informed the hospital, she had already left an appendix in
Manhattan, a placenta in Boston, another...
May 2, 2002 -- ?Questions?
by Kevin Ryan
what is radical?
to kick a copper in his clavicle?
to make your skin mallable?
or to teach the gullible
to keep their souls soluble
to look at yourself critical
and not judge others as simple?....
March 17, 2002 -- Poems
by Amy Chozick
She let the dishes pile up unwashed,
batter and ground meat
panted from rusted tin pans.
For days they stood,
glutted with macaroni shells
that seeped from sink to counter....
January 8, 2002 -- Anthems
by Richard Montoya
Look Ben, I been thinking about the
Continuity of our text,
The Anthem,
and
it won't be enough,
lullaby's and war cries is what
america wants now. ...
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May 19, 2002 -- Claude Cahun
May 17, 2002 -- Carl Hancock Rux
May 15, 2002 -- Collaborative poem-in-process
May 10, 2002 -- Rushdie on Angela Carter
May 7, 2002 -- Why Things Burn
May 3, 2002 -- True Stories of American Indian Youth,
May 3, 2002 -- The Women's Press
May 2, 2002 -- Beatzå Poetry
May 2, 2002 -- Poerty Magazines
May 1, 2002 -- Black Alchemist Press
April 30, 2002 -- Ngugi Page
April 27, 2002 -- Mother Tongue Media House
April 24, 2002 -- Payback Press
April 22, 2002 -- Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
April 18, 2002 -- Welcome to the Revolution of Spoken Word Poetry
April 15, 2002 -- Apple and Snakes Poetry
April 13, 2002 -- Langton Hughes
April 9, 2002 -- Moment's Notice Jazz in Poetry and Prose
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March 26, 2002 -- Apple and Snakes Poetry
March 21, 2002 -- Octavio Paz
March 17, 2002 -- Nikki Giovanni
March 12, 2002 -- Amiri Baraka
February 11, 2002 -- The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth, by Jessica Care Moore by Dinitia Smith, The New York Times
February 1, 2002 -- Saul Williams
January 30, 2002 -- Sonia Sanchez