Poetry
from De la Bronx
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Greg FuchsGREG FUCHS teaches students with disabilities to trust themselves and question everything. He has written scores of poems, published several books, and photographed many people, places, and things. Fuchs is a member of Subpress collective, which has published experimental writing for 20 years. In the near past he studied visual art and critical theory at Rutgers University yet still believes in its ability to transform humanity. Fuchs survives beneath the underground but surfaces occassionaly with his fabulous artist wife, Alison Collins, and their magical son, Lucas.
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27. (Ridge Street, Attorney Street, South Bronx)
By Raphael RubinsteinNOV 2020 | The Miraculous
A young graffiti artist creates an elaborate series of tags on the wall of a handball court on the Lower East Side. His mentor, a poet-playwright who learned the craft of writing while serving a sentence for armed robbery in Sing Sing, admires the graffiti so much that he urges a painter friend to immortalize it on a canvas.
RIZOMA: Poetry & Performance Workshops at Santiaguito de Almoloya Women’s Prison
By Emma GomisSEPT 2020 | Special Report
In March of 2020 I went with a group of artists, poets, and musicians to the Penal Femenil Santiaguito in Almoloya, Mexico—a prison center for prevention and social reinsertion.
28. (A series of telephone booths in Midtown Manhattan, several addresses in the East Village and an unidentified location in the Bronx)
By Raphael RubinsteinNOV 2020 | The Miraculous
A poet in his late 20s begins to feel too restrained by his medium. Looking at a sheet of paper on his writing desk, he sees it as a plan-view of a house and realizes that he wants to escape the page, escape the house, go out into the street and leave the paper and poetry behind.
What Sound Does The Blk Atlantic Make?—on translation in the work of artist Alberta Whittle
By Mother TongueMAY 2020 | Critics Page
Whittle’s filmwork was filmed in part within the North British Rubber Company archives, surrounded by documents and objects relating to their former Edinburgh factory site, singing the mournful lyrics of African-American blues, jazz, and folk singer Odetta Holmes’s song “Deep Blue Sea.”
