Celebrating Cave Canem: Cornelius Eady with Morgan Parker & Cameron Awkward-Rich in conversation with Chiyuma Elliott & Vincente Perez Wednesday, October 20th 2021, from 5:00 – 6:30pm PST Watch the captioned livestream on YouTube here. A review of the event can be found here. This event is presented by the Arts Research Center in partnership […]
You listened well – Ramona Naddaff to witness the miracle of your heart on the outside. – Ken Ueno I have never known myself any other way – reelaviolette botts-ward What does it feel like to stretch without longing? – Vethea Cerna Cole Fire makes a bad lover, the rumor goes – Sara Mumolo and […]
Terrance Hayes and Simone White in conversation with Chiyuma Elliott By: Menat Allah El Attma, April 12, 2021 “What would I do if this was a moment where somebody cared?” Dispelling how it is consumed in the market and media, art created by the Black community sets itself forth into view for that community first. […]
Poetry Reading featuring Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Natalie Diaz, and Aja Monet By: Menat Allah El Attma, April 12, 2021 How does my body make room for another who perceives my senses? —Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge We begin with the body, no way around it. Our bodies form cohesion and, from that, shape. And it is how we write […]
Thought Log #15 The dawn is the opposite direction. Follow the lacy trails through the valley of doom. I dim from the outside & quiver on the inside. Siren sounds from the bog. Flamadiddle, Long Roll, Ratamacue. Swollen glimmers, bewildered chickens. We met in a tasting parlor. Stonecrop, scotch broom, willets. Sentence without verbs. Amber […]
Making Trauma Notes Questions of culpability are often both foreground and background in my discussions about writing trauma with Rusty Morrison.* They emerge because I’m working on a book of connected poems that explore trauma’s antecedents and legacies, its truths and untruths. I use the writing itself as a means to question how one’s traumas […]
Ramona Naddaff is an ARC Spring 2021 Poetry and the Senses fellow. This poem was written while on fellowship.
Non-time and Decolonizing Affordances of Failure by Ken Ueno “In the present characterized by an excess of openings and dissolving boundaries, we are losing the capacity for closure, and this means that life is becoming a purely additive process. For something to die, life must find its own closure. If life is deprived of any […]
Emergency I came into the Arts Research Center fellowship imagining that I would push forward projects that I’d begun early in the pandemic—projects haunted by the uncertainty and fear of those first months, which felt like keys into the greater uncertainty and fear that had been there all along. In those first months, I would walk […]
sanctified children on the emergence of blackgirl spirit form+ the discovery of inner wisdom BY REELAVIOLETTE BOTTS-WARD i often stareat how firedances, andwonder ifever i couldbe that free i often noticewhat wind doesto tree, and wonder if she’s fighting ordancing. i be moving my bodylike art in my mirrormaking play thingout my own skinmaking gracefulout […]
