“At the beginning, when this was the seat of power between the election and the inauguration, it felt subversive to stand here and hold a book. (…) It still feels like contested space. But now, instead of protesters, it’s occupied by Secret Service and law enforcement.”Jeff Bergman, who stages readings in the public spaces of …
Tag Archives: New York city
Exploiters positively thrive in the thick of the city. Untroubled by human presence, they roost on our roofs, nest in our eaves, and eat our trash. The exploiting birds that are most conspicuous in New York City—starlings, house sparrows, rock pigeons (the proper name of the common street pigeon), mallard ducks, and Canada geese—are also …
There are things you cannot learn in the city. Sarah Kay’s poem on her summers in “Montauk.”(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Did you know that 11,000 faces identical with Christ’s are growing thinner in the federal prison? They had no money and no guns, and their pants were not creased. The policeman grows fatter each day and rivals the new tanks. He blots out the doorway of the little café. A couple seeing him spills the …
The last of the suburbs was still passing by, hunkered down for the winter and still as Sunday. Alex felt a particular yearning for the suburbs between an airport and a city; he wanted to stop the car and knock on one of those pine doors, and squeeze in between the fireman and his wife …
“I Can’t Breathe” This is powerful: On July 29th, at 6pm WalkRunFly Productions (Warren Adams & Brandon Victor Dixon) partnered with poet Daniel J. Watts, and over 100 Broadway stars, directors, producers, musicians, choreographers, designers and technicians in Times Square to send a message about violence and the killing of Eric Gardner. The death of …
Skate to destroy (by SLAPskateboardmag / via merelythining)(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
CLARITY AND CHAOS 