(This blog post was inspired by a meeting with students for The James Baldwin Society on 3.26.25. I've been reflecting on their expressions of exhaustion all day. I HOPE this offers some consolation ... some strategy for survival). https://videopress.com/v/Pawqqmfd?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&autoPlay=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true "This is precisely the time when artists go to work... not when everything is fine, but … Continue reading The Purge
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PREVIEW: A REQUIEM FOR JIMMY
When You Love A Man
(From forthcoming collection entitled: Outside of Honor: Black Motherverse & Queer BlackBoySpeak when you love a man sometimes you love everything he ain’t you put the pieces together in your head as if a master-builder skilled in the art of refining fleshyou bruise your knuckleson the hard wood of his determination and scrape your legs on what he dreams about without … Continue reading When You Love A Man
“QUEER, MY DEAR”
"Queer, My Dear" is a tribute performance that honors the embodied queer multivalence of Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Prince, and Tevin Campbell. Highlighting their private truths, artistic performances, and spectrums of masculinity, this series of poems both grieves and celebrates the queerness that defied verbal expression and that which made its way into the coded … Continue reading “QUEER, MY DEAR”
“HOME”
https://videopress.com/v/q3bQfMXY?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true So, occasionally I dabble in music. I'd definitely like to do more of this, but for now it's a bit of a "side-hustle." I'm not sure how to explain "Home" except as a musical reclamation of body and self; an acknowledgment that the "unhomed" queer body requires many bold eviction and revisitation of its … Continue reading “HOME”
“Breaking Up With My Mother’s Dreams”
https://videopress.com/v/Wo4ORJ5w?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true "BUWMMD" is from my forthcoming volume of poetry entitled Outside of Honor: Black Motherverse & Queer BlackBoySpeak.
“Come Out the Wilderness”
"Come Out the Wilderness" is a full-length performance poem that situates "queer" sexuality in the history of American slavery. The performance, as it is here presented, is a work in progress; I am currently expanding and revising its story. This particular recording was done one week after an intensive writing session in which I devoted … Continue reading “Come Out the Wilderness”
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