The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael - Archive
#179
I repent better in the waning / season
2021-09-20T01:00:00Z
#178
We might find a humanity that is not asking to be seen, but demanding instead.
2021-09-13T01:15:31.682263Z
#177
I mean, / what pearl forms around a grain of plastic in an oyster?
2021-09-06T01:01:06.335096Z
#175
the dead are changeless. / They grow no older. / It is I who have changed,
2021-08-23T00:56:49.118013Z
#174
i want to talk about respect. / how even the desperate deserve it.
2021-08-16T01:13:49.058243Z
#173
did you know roots are easy / to snap?
2021-08-09T01:00:41.237335Z
#170
The After Party: "community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist"
2021-07-26T01:22:47.812812Z
#168
Do not raise your small voice against it. And do not / take cover.
2021-07-12T01:07:40.608457Z
#167
It feels better to move with time than it does to constantly race against it.
2021-07-11T00:00:00Z
#165
hope bleeds slowly from my mouth / into the dirt that covers us all
2021-06-28T01:00:00Z
#164
The After Party: "Identity is a hallucination...and everything is a story"
2021-06-21T01:00:00Z
#162
The magic settles uneasy; it turns out fairy dust was always / fake.
2021-06-12T23:30:00Z
#161
I ask that they describe / an object right in front of them, to make / it come alive, and one writes about death,
2021-06-07T01:00:00Z
#160
Reporters & fathers call your generation “the worst.”
2021-05-31T01:10:00Z
#158
Everyone loves that familiar warbeat: I know all the words to this war.
2021-05-24T01:16:00Z
#156
It doesn’t matter that / there is nowhere to run to.
2021-05-17T01:17:09.784500Z
#152
I learned it’s okay to glance down / into the sea. So many lessons bubble up if you know / where to look.
2021-05-03T01:00:00Z
#151
we used our words we used what words we had to weld, / what words we had we wielded
2021-04-26T01:16:22.917833Z
#150
There are politics to death / and here politics performs / its own autopsies
2021-04-19T01:00:00Z
#139
I would laugh if I was not being smothered by the violence of imagination
2021-04-05T01:11:23.802621Z
#137
To live another person’s biography is not the same as to live his or her life.
2021-03-29T01:00:00Z
#136
I address you aftermath, you as vengeance.
2021-03-22T01:00:31.082394Z
#138
I want to be the woman who sits
2021-03-15T01:00:50.170000Z
#134
What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying.
2021-03-01T02:00:56.908000Z
#132
The After Party: Dispatch from Fantasy Island
2021-02-22T02:00:56.405000Z
#148
Because you still listen, because in times like these
2021-02-08T02:00:49.010000Z
#130
I need to learn
2021-01-25T02:00:57.296000Z
#129
There’s more to MLK than “I Have a Dream”
2021-01-18T17:22:07.829000Z
#128
I always thought language was / Akin to the body
2021-01-18T02:01:03.923000Z
#125
The perfect moment is now.
2020-12-28T02:00:58.883000Z
#124
you cannot catch / my rhythm
2020-12-21T02:00:50.771000Z
#123
what advice do the drowned have for the burned?
2020-12-14T02:00:52.583000Z
#122
And still a world begins its furious erasure—
2020-12-07T02:00:51.625000Z
#120
After that came a sadness so big it made everyone
2020-11-23T02:00:04.525000Z
#118
Peace.
2020-11-09T01:43:58.148000Z
#116
Many of them remain unaware of . . .
2020-10-26T01:00:38.624000Z
#114
How am I to understand the fluidity with which we continue in our days?
2020-10-05T01:00:47.959000Z
#113
I must write the same poem over and over,
2020-09-28T01:00:43.338000Z
#112
You do own to hear me faintly /
2020-09-14T01:00:43.250000Z
#111
tired i count the ways in which it determines my life
2020-09-07T01:00:39.632000Z
#109
Between the idea / and the reality
2020-08-24T01:00:34.966000Z
#106
The challenge is in the moment /
2020-08-03T01:00:04.196000Z
#104
Feel the water cannons start to press through the walls and soak your feet.
2020-07-27T01:00:52.819000Z
#103
There comes a time when you have to say something. You have to make a little noise.
2020-07-20T01:00:40.423000Z
#101
but when we are silent
2020-07-06T01:00:05.151000Z
#145
I wondered how long 400 years is, / how many bodies, /
2020-06-15T01:00:34.470000Z
#96
I would call my friends on other devices;
2020-05-18T01:00:52.295000Z
#94
Even what was beyond us / was recast in our image;
2020-05-04T01:00:43.123000Z
#92
We are spendthrifts with words,
2020-04-20T01:00:32.876000Z
#91
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, /
2020-04-06T01:00:30.495000Z
#88
Someone is dancing us.
2020-03-16T01:00:38.594000Z
#87
I have been woman / for a long time
2020-03-09T01:00:50.156000Z
#84
Please remain calm,
2020-02-17T02:00:00.905000Z
#82
The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much
2020-02-03T02:00:35.080000Z
#81
Our bodies spun / On swivels of bone & faith, / Through a lyric slipknot
2020-01-26T21:00:47.356000Z
#80
Beyond dreams and the arc of justice
2020-01-20T22:00:46.214000Z
#142
awards medals to generals
2020-01-13T02:00:29.928000Z
#77
Listen.
2020-01-06T02:00:34.676000Z
#76
to dare to have nothing so much to lose
2019-12-31T17:30:48.786000Z
#74
I do not believe as some / that the vote is an end
2019-12-16T02:00:35.991000Z
#71
No air. Breathe in.
2019-12-03T02:00:27.763000Z
#69
let this be the healing
2019-11-18T02:00:44.486000Z
#68
All of it has always seemed so arbitrary to me,
2019-11-11T02:00:36.365000Z
#66
and i become relic
2019-10-28T01:00:55.222000Z
#64
I love your hair / You always wear such interesting things
2019-10-19T23:00:35.870000Z
#62
get up and try to do something
2019-10-07T01:00:45.916000Z
#60
In the beginning before the beginning, there were drums, and hymns,
2019-09-23T01:00:43.853000Z
#59
T.S. Eliot said that humankind cannot bear very much reality.
2019-09-16T03:30:48.399000Z
#56
O whatever God or whatever ancestor that wins in the next life
2019-09-09T01:00:51.804000Z
#55
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
2019-09-02T01:00:57.717000Z
#54
No faith comes without cost /
2019-08-26T01:00:51.361000Z
#52
Here, blackness isn’t a commodity; it isn’t inherently political;
2019-08-12T01:00:38.483000Z
#50
I give you / a legacy / of doers
2019-07-29T01:01:20.920000Z
#49
What to do with this knowledge
2019-07-25T04:22:06.035000Z
#47
It is time to ask very hard questions and to take very rude positions.
2019-07-18T05:46:22.979000Z
#44
The first Pride was a riot
2019-07-01T01:00:51.291000Z
#42
I am scared / is not a good enough reason to not get out of bed
2019-06-17T01:00:41.894000Z
#40
i can’t stand your ground.
2019-06-03T01:00:46.355000Z
#38
The press is so powerful in its image-making role
2019-05-20T01:00:35.218000Z
#36
“I did know, though, and I was silenced.”
2019-05-06T01:00:47.553000Z
#35
May you be comforted
2019-04-29T01:00:36.599000Z
#32
I didn’t know and nobody told me
2019-04-07T22:00:42.132000Z
#30
"Hey, what's keeping you busy these days?"
2019-03-25T01:00:46.942000Z
#25
The dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way.
2019-02-18T02:00:53.226000Z
#23
Somehow, blackface wasn’t even the worst of it
2019-02-04T01:59:59.991000Z
#18
Bask in your own heartbreak
2018-12-31T02:00:53.420000Z
#16
we protested but not enough
2018-12-23T05:52:31.974000Z
#10
what are you doing to make revolution irresistible
2018-11-14T06:03:42.279000Z
#6
Go the way your blood beats
2018-10-27T21:04:53.520000Z
#4
Instead of stressed I lie here charmed
2018-10-20T04:14:53.208000Z
#2
Let the horizon be what it is
2018-10-11T18:57:30.051000Z
#1
Welcome to the Main Event
2018-07-01T23:39:32.531000Z