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If You Can Hear Me
On James Blake's recent song for his father and how I deeply I relate to it
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Abide With Me
Some writings on what I'm calling the Black Backstage, that will become a series and solo exhibition in the near future.
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Who You Think I Am?
On MF DOOM's one question manifesto about defying so many categories all you can be is the villain
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Amiri Baraka on Writing about Jazz, Etcetera
What strikes most about this interview from 1991 is Baraka’s ability to defend people who he might have been told were his enemies or foils. He was…
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We're Vulnerable
One in my series of poems about failed or transmuted or inadequate grief, romancing grief to reach its opposite, and the acoustics of these things…
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You are always on my mind
Some evil heroes I think about all the time, some things I've been thinking about in recent days
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Radial Arpeggio: Some thoughts on how we sing the unspeakable
There’s no cruelty in living life as an arpeggio, except that the ability to stretch notes that far and omnidirectional can turn you into an echo of…
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Songs of Black Spring
A look at black music's favorite season (with images, playlist fixed)
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Black Music and Black Muses
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Music writing that is not restricted by the demands, wishes, and timelines of the music industry. Writing, not advertising. Love, not a battle of the brands.
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