they perch outside the grocery,
sucking teeth at new neighbors
rushing home with La Croix boxes
For #NationalPoetryMonth we're sharing poems from The Quarry. Today's: "Ode to the Black Men Playing Lil’ Jon Outside the Waterfront Safeway" by Alexa Patrick: bit.ly/2Lwip6h
The full DC episode of the Purpose Club Tour is HERE. 📺 Watch now & join The Village:
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Between the Lines and Shadows — truth, justice & purpose featuring Alexa Patrick, Adedayo Kosoko, and Charles Philippe Jean-Pierre.
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Split This Rock is thrilled to announce three new members on our Board of Directors: Alexa Patrick, Danielle Badra, and Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez!
Get to know them and all present members of the Board at Split This Rock’s website: bit.ly/43B9hWw#DCpoets#DCpoetry#DC
ALT Split This Rock’s red logo is centered above a bold heading: “Meet our new board members.” There are three columns with each board member’s photo in a circular frame at the top as well as their names and a brief description of their work. Alexa Patrick is a vocalist, poet, teaching artist, and Program Director at Shout Mouse Press. Danielle Badra is a poet, the 2022-2024 Fairfax County Poet Laureate & creator of Poetry in the Parks. Tatiana Figueroa Ramírez is a poet, teaching artist, and Senior Program Director of Poetry & Community Arts at DC SCORES. At the bottom, a URL: splitthisrock.org.
#NottowayPlantation, once the home of over 150 enslaved Africans under John Hampden Randolph caught fire yesterday afternoon.
That land carries centuries of pain, and it seems the ancestors had time today. 🔥✊🏾 Some debts don’t stay buried.
was chatting with my doctor, who went to hawaii on vacay recently, and she’s like “it almost felt like being in another country!” and instead of starting off with “well...!” i just said “i know right”
Cave Canem is the 2nd thing I ever applied for on submittable in 2015. I apply every year cause Black poet ritual and practice in steadfastness. Me and all my folks are the persistent, ever hopeful, there’s always next year type.