“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don’t want to go naked, don’t want to go without guarantee. But that’s what’s got to happen. You go naked until you die.” –Nikki Giovanni
What She Said, February 22: Nikki Giovanni
What She Said, June 28: Elizabeth Alexander
Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)
is the human voice,
and are we not of interest to each other?
Elizabeth Alexander
What She Said, June 26: Patricia Smith
I suggest that the poets don’t hide. That they scream. That they confront. That they bellow and resist.
–Patricia Smith
What She Said, June 24: June Jordan
To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
–June Jordan
The Gloria Sirens 