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"Forget that your hard steel stool causes you to lose feeling in your butt and legs; forget that your low table causes neck aches that will lock up your back after an hour... Imagine your writing touching one person, just one." Leo Cardez #PrisonWriting
https://pen.org/unsealed-blood-ink-prison-pen/
"Poetry is how I work things out for myself–not a 'thinking' process alone, but a process of language, which brings in the social, the emotional, the affective and the physical."
An interview with #NBAwards-honored poet @MonicaYoun. | @PENamerica
https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-monica-youn/
Antiracist momentum has been "crushed by a pretty well-organized force... who’ve tried to change the problem from racism to antiracism... to change the problem from police violence to the people speaking out against police violence," @DrIbram tells CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/18/us/ibram-kendi-racial-reckoning-blake-cec