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Finding Your Own Voice: Braxton Interviews Cortez, Joanne Braxton
Finding Your Own Voice: Braxton Interviews Cortez, Joanne Braxton
Joanne Braxton
Dr. Braxton conducted an interview with internationally acclaimed jazz poet and activist Jayne Cortez. In her introduction, Braxton referred to Cortez as an “inspirational figure” who has created films and founded theater companies in addition to establishing her core body of work that includes 10 books of poetry and nine recordings. “Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, innovative, dynamic innovations in lyricism and visceral sound,” Braxton said. “To hear Jayne Cortez’s poetry is to feel it.”
Days And Nights Of San Miguel, Marianne Rogoff
Days And Nights Of San Miguel, Marianne Rogoff
Marianne Rogoff
"Continuity
Roosters crow and the plaza comes to life every morning with newsboys, tourists, pigeons and grackles, prayers of the pilgrims, the balloon man, the cigarette lady, the horse with his blinders. Men stride through dressed for business in fresh-shined shoes. Cement façades are yellow gold, burnt red/orange, and keep still as clouds drift across the sun and shadows hover, persist. Rays of light fall from the sky, which is deep blue where it is not white with giant cumulus puffs. Black rain clouds move in, threatening, wind blows balloon streamers, smoke rises from tortilla barbecues, heads turn upward. The …