Poem
By Jayne Cortez
From white lightnin to
bowed heads in red
rooms of pregnancy
under blackness
spread out closed in
how do …
bowed heads in red
rooms of pregnancy
under blackness
spread out closed in
how do …
Theme
Poetry & Visual Arts
Poems in conversation with other art forms, such as painting, photography, sculpture, video, and architecture.
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- AudioPoetry Off the ShelfHelena and Nicholson Baker on drawing your loved ones, the horrors of the world, and finding your way back to beauty.
- PoemBy W. H. AudenAbout suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous... 
- ArticleBy Lucy IvesFlorine Stettheimer was a brilliant American painter of the 1920s and '30s. As a new biography reminds us, she also wrote poems that share the idiosyncratic charm of her visual art.
- AudioVSWhen many people think of experimental Black poetry, they imagine Jazz, or spoken word, or vernacular––they “envision” sound. But what about poetry you can see? In this…
- PoemBy Sable Elyse SmithColoring Book 13, 2018. Screen printing ink, oil pastel, and oil stick on paper. 60.25 × 56 inches. All photos by Charles Benton. All images courtesy of the artist, JTT, New York, and Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Coloring Book 16, 2018. Screen printing... - PoemBy avery r. young
preface:
1. He reminded me of the character Willis Jackson from the TV show Diff’rent Strokes. This prompted me to reimagine a dark narrative of a Willis who would be bullied for having all of blk Harlem caked on him inside... 
- PoemBy Marilyn NelsonThe United Negro Improvement Association,
he says, his little bloodshot eyes looking out
of the dark shadows of his overhanging black
brow. His eyebrows quizzical, halfway to a smile.
And over them,...