Tag: Letters to the Future
Postcards to the Future: ACTIVISM
“When we at KPI started this multi-month journey of protesting in place, we were in pandemic lockdown. Our primary thoughts connected social-distancing/physical isolation with remaining active and engaged in our …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Julie Patton
In this collage, visual artist, poet and performer Julie Patton shows a literal “world view” of the primordial mermaid who also sees the bones of Black people in the depths …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Metta Sama
In this poem Metta Sama presents a series of impactful statements on race in everyday life that, in the aggregate, convey the aggression of supremacist/bullying performative utterances. WhyWeCan’tHaveNiceThings# I …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves
In this untitled poem, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves pulls the lens on racial violence all the way back to explore the notion of “intra” racial violence, killing among members of …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Duriel E. Harris
In this long poem, Duriel E. Harris uses the list as a formal device to show an accumulation of the concepts of danger, horror, memory, within/through the body and the outside …