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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowds at the Café, through their loud clapping, peppery snaps, sarcastic hollers, and delighted screams during performances, creates one of the most welcoming spots in all of New York City. In the words of poet Portia Bartley, who was featured in a recent Poetry Slam night and who was a regular before moving to Los Angeles, the Café “speaks to the marginalized, to anyone who’s usually not granted a safe space to express themselves and speak on their experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13020318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/nuyo-3-66f42aa7f0c93f1d9500f11241974b97d453be31-800x600.png\" alt=\"The crowds at the Café, through their loud clapping, peppery snaps, sarcastic hollers, and delighted screams during performances, creates one of the most welcoming spots in all of New York City.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13020318\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/nuyo-3-66f42aa7f0c93f1d9500f11241974b97d453be31-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/nuyo-3-66f42aa7f0c93f1d9500f11241974b97d453be31-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/nuyo-3-66f42aa7f0c93f1d9500f11241974b97d453be31-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/nuyo-3-66f42aa7f0c93f1d9500f11241974b97d453be31-240x180.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/nuyo-3-66f42aa7f0c93f1d9500f11241974b97d453be31-375x281.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/nuyo-3-66f42aa7f0c93f1d9500f11241974b97d453be31-520x390.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/nuyo-3-66f42aa7f0c93f1d9500f11241974b97d453be31.png 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crowds at the Café, through their loud clapping, peppery snaps, sarcastic hollers, and delighted screams during performances, creates one of the most welcoming spots in all of New York City. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nuyorican Cafe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The audience has also evolved and now includes not only first-generation Latinos, but African-Americans and Asian-Americans. Daniel Gallant, executive director since 2008, believes that’s exactly the venue’s mission. “What we’ve tried to do in my time at the Café is create as many opportunities as possible for artists who may not otherwise look at slam poetry or spoken word as an accessible art form,” he said. Those Open Mic spots, as well as multiple Poetry Slam Nights every week, are platforms to showcase budding artists to the eager young audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the favorite theme nights is the Wednesday Night Poetry Slam Open where poets are rated by three randomly selected judges before a rapt and raucous audience. Winners earn a spot on the headlining Friday Night Poetry Slam. The reward is part of an embedded teaching philosophy that encourages experimenting and redrafting. “We rather hear a noble failure than a polished success,” Gallant said. This echoes what Mahogany L. Browne, the poetry program curator at the Café, said via email about what makes the space such an invaluable resource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that art has been commodified for so long, it is a rarity that there is a space that cultivates community, invests in the act of the building the portfolio of writers/performers, and is a purveyor of the preservation of this constantly re-imagined art form.” While the Café sporadically stages theatrical events (most famously in 2015 with \u003cem>Carmen: A Drinking Opera\u003c/em>), the emphasis remains on the fleeting and the ephemeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work showcased at the Café exists at the intersection of art and activism. Given its proximity to the worlds and words of activism, slam poetry remains a hotbed for politically-charged voices. While the Café, a registered nonprofit, is prohibited from taking political stances, performers are not. Recent projects like Benjamin Benne’s queer piece \u003ca href=\"http://www.nuyorican.org/event/1459574-querencia-imagined-new-york/\">\u003cem>Querencia: An Imagined Autobiography about Forbidden Fruits\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>upcoming PEN World Voices events including “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nuyorican.org/event/1450019-pen-world-voices-us-borders-new-york/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Borders and the Central American Diaspora\u003c/a>,” as well as a summer workshop staging of Ishmael Reed’s new play, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nuyorican.org/event/1462483-ishmael-reed-s-life-among-new-york/\">\u003cem>Life Among the Aryans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> merely continue the cultural work that Algarín envisioned, work that speaks to complex cultural and political currents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people want art that is easy to process, we politely encourage them to go elsewhere,” Gallant said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Nuyorican+Poets+Caf%C3%A9%2C+A+Cauldron+for+Poetry+And+Politics&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pioneers and fools are deficient in judgment and sense, but brimming with vision. This is what I learned as I stayed up reading a collection of John Muir’s “most thrilling experiences”— as the back cover of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yosemiteconservancystore.com/prod-235-1-22-34/the-wild-muir-22-of-john-muir-s-greatest-adventures.htm\">\u003cem>Th\u003c/em>\u003cem>e Wild Muir\u003c/em>\u003c/a> assures me. They are in fact adventures that by sheer miracle did not end in death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am only a third of the book in, but Muir has already rushed two grizzlies (on \u003cem>two\u003c/em> separate occasions) and inched sideways for 30 feet like a tightrope walker on a three-inch cliff ledge, just so that he could espy a \u003cem>different\u003c/em> \u003cem>view\u003c/em> of the Yosemite Falls. Following this last exploit Muir wrote that “looking down into Yosemite, the death song of Yosemite Creek, and its flight over the vast cliff” was enjoyment enough “to kill if that were possible.” Or die, as the case may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12935461\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12935461 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir.jpg\" alt=\"John Muir\" width=\"1000\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-800x712.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-768x684.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-960x854.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-240x214.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-375x334.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-520x463.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Muir. 1902. (Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the fictional characters in Jim Shepard’s new short story collection \u003cem>The World to Come\u003c/em> had any driving ethos, this would be it: \u003cem>Enjoyment enough to kill if that were possible — or die as the case may be\u003c/em>. With stories that take place anywhere from Crete 1300 B.C. to the contemporary United States, \u003cem>The World to Come\u003c/em> is a book peopled by the fateful desire of the pioneering spirit and that high-risk, high-gain situation, where the unreachable may be grasped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with his other work, Shepard’s storytelling powers seem to lie with pulling you along scenes in which even the language seems to be smirking up at you. There you are, making your way past words like \u003cem>kablooie\u003c/em>—when suddenly, in just a turn of phrase, sometimes a word, you find yourself treading an indefinite, beautiful depth of human longing, or the unfixable, wrenching self-knowledge of failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These short stories are so evenly masterful, it’s hard to pick a favorite. As it happens, most of them are based on real-life events—the failed Franklin expedition to the Arctic in 1845, for example, the first offshore Navy platform, the WWII suicide mission of the small British submarine \u003cem>Telemachus, \u003c/em>the Montgolfier brothers and their invention of hot air balloons. Even so, Shepard allows for a wide interpretation of risk, training his eye on stunning disasters as well as quiet dramas—the two frontier wives who yearn for each other in this book’s title story is infinitely touching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12935462\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1756px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12935462 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104.jpg\" alt=\"Montgolfier Hot Air Baloon\" width=\"1756\" height=\"1991\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104.jpg 1756w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-160x181.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-800x907.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-768x871.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-1020x1157.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-1180x1338.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-960x1088.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-240x272.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-375x425.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-520x590.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1756px) 100vw, 1756px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes tethered off at the garden of the Reveillon workshop, Paris, on October 19, 1783. (Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most beautifully imagined story is \u003cem>The Ocean of Air\u003c/em>. Told from the point of view of Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, whose large imagination prototyped the first hot air balloon, this is a story of an inventor left behind. Joseph-Michel stays at home drowning in debt as his older brother goes to Paris to conduct the business of their invention. The language is at most beautiful as Joseph-Michel grasps with creative intemperance at the confines of our world: “I often have fancied that man in his relation to the sky resembled marine organisms confined to the ocean’s floor, and that in order to discover the true conditions of the atmosphere it would be necessary to observe them from considerable heights. We live in the depths of an ocean of air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is there anything more exhilarating than carrying on alone out on the edge of a doomed world?” asks another character in another story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is there, indeed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The World to Come\u003c/em> is wholly imagined, spectacularly heartbreaking, and dismally entertaining. If John Muir were alive, he would have loved this book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12935470 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Spine-1.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Spine-1.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Spine-1-160x8.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Spine-1-768x40.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Spine-1-240x13.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Spine-1-375x20.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Spine-1-520x27.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jim Shepard reads at the Booksmith on Haight on Monday, March 27, at 7:30pm. More details \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/jim-shepard-world-come\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pioneers and fools are deficient in judgment and sense, but brimming with vision. This is what I learned as I stayed up reading a collection of John Muir’s “most thrilling experiences”— as the back cover of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yosemiteconservancystore.com/prod-235-1-22-34/the-wild-muir-22-of-john-muir-s-greatest-adventures.htm\">\u003cem>Th\u003c/em>\u003cem>e Wild Muir\u003c/em>\u003c/a> assures me. They are in fact adventures that by sheer miracle did not end in death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am only a third of the book in, but Muir has already rushed two grizzlies (on \u003cem>two\u003c/em> separate occasions) and inched sideways for 30 feet like a tightrope walker on a three-inch cliff ledge, just so that he could espy a \u003cem>different\u003c/em> \u003cem>view\u003c/em> of the Yosemite Falls. Following this last exploit Muir wrote that “looking down into Yosemite, the death song of Yosemite Creek, and its flight over the vast cliff” was enjoyment enough “to kill if that were possible.” Or die, as the case may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12935461\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12935461 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir.jpg\" alt=\"John Muir\" width=\"1000\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-160x142.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-800x712.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-768x684.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-960x854.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-240x214.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-375x334.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/muir-520x463.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Muir. 1902. (Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the fictional characters in Jim Shepard’s new short story collection \u003cem>The World to Come\u003c/em> had any driving ethos, this would be it: \u003cem>Enjoyment enough to kill if that were possible — or die as the case may be\u003c/em>. With stories that take place anywhere from Crete 1300 B.C. to the contemporary United States, \u003cem>The World to Come\u003c/em> is a book peopled by the fateful desire of the pioneering spirit and that high-risk, high-gain situation, where the unreachable may be grasped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with his other work, Shepard’s storytelling powers seem to lie with pulling you along scenes in which even the language seems to be smirking up at you. There you are, making your way past words like \u003cem>kablooie\u003c/em>—when suddenly, in just a turn of phrase, sometimes a word, you find yourself treading an indefinite, beautiful depth of human longing, or the unfixable, wrenching self-knowledge of failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These short stories are so evenly masterful, it’s hard to pick a favorite. As it happens, most of them are based on real-life events—the failed Franklin expedition to the Arctic in 1845, for example, the first offshore Navy platform, the WWII suicide mission of the small British submarine \u003cem>Telemachus, \u003c/em>the Montgolfier brothers and their invention of hot air balloons. Even so, Shepard allows for a wide interpretation of risk, training his eye on stunning disasters as well as quiet dramas—the two frontier wives who yearn for each other in this book’s title story is infinitely touching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12935462\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1756px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12935462 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104.jpg\" alt=\"Montgolfier Hot Air Baloon\" width=\"1756\" height=\"1991\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104.jpg 1756w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-160x181.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-800x907.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-768x871.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-1020x1157.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-1180x1338.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-960x1088.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-240x272.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-375x425.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Montgolfier_brothers_flight-e1490154050104-520x590.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1756px) 100vw, 1756px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes tethered off at the garden of the Reveillon workshop, Paris, on October 19, 1783. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barris, a Philadelphia native, also put pen to paper in 1984 for his autobiography: \u003cem>Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Biography\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, he claimed to be an assassin for the CIA. The book was turned into a movie in 2002 and was a first-time directing gig for George Clooney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the CIA assassin claim goes, The Associated Press reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds like he has been standing too close to the gong all those years,” quipped CIA spokesman Tom Crispell. “Chuck Barris has never been employed by the CIA and the allegation that he was a hired assassin is absurd,” Crispell added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the closest Barris got to working for the CIA was when he was hired by a TV network. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chuck-barris-dead-gong-show-929310\">The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“After working various odd jobs, including traveling around the country selling teleprompters, Barris moved to New York and became an NBC page. He went through a management training program and took a sales job, but then the network fired everyone in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He then was hired by ABC, which offered him the dubious assignment of tailing Dick Clark, the young and popular host of TV’s American Bandstand, at Philadelphia station WFIL-TV. Barris’ task was to ascertain whether Clark was involved in the illegal practice of payola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so ridiculous. If I left at 6 o’clock, what’s to say he couldn’t be doing anything nefarious after 6 o’clock?” Barris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Still, he wrote daily memos detailing the goings-on at American Bandstand for about a year, and his notes were presented before a House of Representatives subcommittee in Washington. Ultimately, Clark was absolved of any wrongdoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuck Barris, who critics called “The King of Schlock” or “The Baron of Bad Taste” was 87. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Gong+Show%27+Host+Chuck+Barris+Dies%3B+Game+Show+Creator+Was+87&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While a sophomore in high school, one of my best friends sent me a letter. It contained just two sentences:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>You have got to hear a song called “Grandma’s Hands,” by Bill Withers, and you’ve got to read \u003cem>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u003c/em>, by Maya Angelou. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>At the time I was working at Hakim’s Bookstore in Philadelphia, so I immediately got a copy of the book. I was struck by just how much I related to this little Black girl. I felt I \u003cem>knew\u003c/em> her. I cared about her story. It was so affirming. This began my love affair with the writings of Maya Angelou. I read everything she wrote, voraciously. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/01/20/maya-angelou-legacy-of-an-artist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maya_300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12735398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Dr. Angelou several years later, in 1981, when she was a featured writer in a Black Literary series at Philadelphia’s Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum. Eleanor Traylor had put together an amazing roster of great writers, including James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, John O. Killens, Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez. I brought my little paperback copy of her book of poetry, \u003cem>And Still I Rise\u003c/em>. She signed it for me, leaving what I’ve since learned was her trademark: “Joy!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next time I saw Dr. Angelou, I was in the live audience during a televised appearance she made on the Maury Povich show in Philadelphia. There were two guests that day. The first, one, a vicious racist, is no longer living, so I won’t mention the name, but after he left, what followed was an amazing example of Dr. Angelou’s wisdom and brilliance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12904519\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800.jpg\" alt=\"Lindo's copy of 'And Still I Rise,' signed by Maya Angelou\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12904519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-520x694.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindo’s copy of ‘And Still I Rise,’ signed by Maya Angelou \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Nashormeh N.R. Lindo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the segment was over, she came out and diffused the tension in the studio with a quote from the Afro-Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer, also known as Terence: “I am human, and nothing of that which is human is alien to me.” She had nothing more to say about the previous guest. My friends and I were in awe at her calm, dignified demeanor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years after Dr. Angelou signed my book, we met again. This time, it was at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. It was during this time that \u003ca href=\"https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/a-dance-of-rivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the famous photograph of she and Amiri Baraka dancing\u003c/a> was taken by \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> photographer Chester Higgins. I was standing there, just to the left of the camera’s lens. The festivities were in honor of Langston Hughes’ birthday and was the one of several times she visited the Schomburg while I was there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once, I was sent to the airport to meet her. During her visit, I became her unofficial assistant and “Girl Friday.” She asked me if I had any of her books in my office she could use for her reading. Of course I did — the very book she’d autographed for me a decade earlier. Then she asked me to hold her purse while she did her reading, so I accompanied her backstage at the center’s theater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noel Pointer was performing, playing his violin with unbelievable passion. Dr. Angelou and I were standing in the wings, dancing and shouting our encouragement to him. I remember thinking, “Wow! I’m standing here, jamming with Maya Angelou!” At the end of his performance, we just looked at each other, and gave each other a high five, shaking our heads in wonder. Brother Noel Pointer passed away shortly after that awesome performance, but it is etched in my memory forever. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12904670\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Maya-and-yellow-fridge.800.jpg\" alt=\"Maya Angelou in the house\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12904670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Maya-and-yellow-fridge.800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Maya-and-yellow-fridge.800-160x140.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Maya-and-yellow-fridge.800-768x672.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Maya-and-yellow-fridge.800-240x210.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Maya-and-yellow-fridge.800-375x328.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Maya-and-yellow-fridge.800-520x455.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Angelou in the house. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Ivonne Broadnax)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since moving to the Bay Area, I had that little book bound again because I had read it to the point of fragility. In the spring of 2016, when Belva Davis asked my husband to read at a program honoring Dr. Angelou at the Museum of the African Diaspora, I gave him my newly bound book. I noticed the date she’d signed my book. It was on Nov. 18, my husband’s birthday. Kismet? Perhaps. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the current political climate, I find myself wondering, “What would Dr. Maya say?” Then I think of her response to hate with a quote from Terence. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>While a sophomore in high school, one of my best friends sent me a letter. It contained just two sentences:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>You have got to hear a song called “Grandma’s Hands,” by Bill Withers, and you’ve got to read \u003cem>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u003c/em>, by Maya Angelou. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>At the time I was working at Hakim’s Bookstore in Philadelphia, so I immediately got a copy of the book. I was struck by just how much I related to this little Black girl. I felt I \u003cem>knew\u003c/em> her. I cared about her story. It was so affirming. This began my love affair with the writings of Maya Angelou. I read everything she wrote, voraciously. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/01/20/maya-angelou-legacy-of-an-artist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maya_300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12735398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Dr. Angelou several years later, in 1981, when she was a featured writer in a Black Literary series at Philadelphia’s Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum. Eleanor Traylor had put together an amazing roster of great writers, including James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, John O. Killens, Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez. I brought my little paperback copy of her book of poetry, \u003cem>And Still I Rise\u003c/em>. She signed it for me, leaving what I’ve since learned was her trademark: “Joy!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next time I saw Dr. Angelou, I was in the live audience during a televised appearance she made on the Maury Povich show in Philadelphia. There were two guests that day. The first, one, a vicious racist, is no longer living, so I won’t mention the name, but after he left, what followed was an amazing example of Dr. Angelou’s wisdom and brilliance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12904519\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800.jpg\" alt=\"Lindo's copy of 'And Still I Rise,' signed by Maya Angelou\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12904519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/signed-pageMaya.800-520x694.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindo’s copy of ‘And Still I Rise,’ signed by Maya Angelou \u003ccite>(Courtesy: Nashormeh N.R. Lindo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the segment was over, she came out and diffused the tension in the studio with a quote from the Afro-Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer, also known as Terence: “I am human, and nothing of that which is human is alien to me.” She had nothing more to say about the previous guest. My friends and I were in awe at her calm, dignified demeanor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp class=\"graf graf--p\">There is a leap of faith involved in leaving one’s home country, as every immigrant knows—and there is a surge of magical thinking when leaving becomes necessary but the possibilities to leave dwindle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"graf graf--p\">In Colombia, when that country’s violence lapped at my family’s door and our efforts to leave through official channels dried up, instead of losing hope, my family and I came to believe that if we washed every wall of our house with the intention to prepare it for new owners, then our house would understand we were no longer its dwellers. We had no scheduled meetings with immigration officers, and so we communicated with the plaster and brick of our house, telling \u003cem class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">it \u003c/em>that we were leaving, believing that this would open a door for our exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This magical thinking is one of the reasons I love Moshin Hamid’s new novel, \u003cem>Exit West\u003c/em>, where—not unlike current events—migrants are unwanted the world over and every continent has its festering of nativist crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in this fictional world, portals appear. Doors that previously led to closets, to bathrooms, to terraces, lead suddenly into foreign countries. Sometimes the doors lead to countries that are better off, sometimes worse off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"graf graf--p\">At the center of this are two lovers, Nadia and Saeed, citizens of an unnamed country fallen to civil war. As their city loses electricity, as helicopters fly overhead and skirmishes lead to public executions, Nadia and Saeed fall in love. Rumors of portals are met with derision, until the young couple goes through one. They come to a refugee camp in Greece, then find a door that leads into an uninhabited mansion in London that is so filled with small wonders the couple assumes they must be inside an upscale hotel. In what’s perhaps the most memorable writing in the book, Nadia takes a shower:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp class=\"graf graf--p\">The heat was superb too, and she turned it up as high as she could stand, the heat going all the way into her bones, chilled from months of outdoor cold, and the bathroom filled up with steam like a forest in the mountains, scented with pine and lavender from the soaps she had found, a kind of heaven, with towels so plush and fine that when she at last emerged she felt like a princess using them, or at least like the daughter of a dictator who was willing to kill without mercy in order for his children to pamper themselves with cotton such as this, to feel this exquisite sensation on their naked stomachs and thighs, towels that felt as if they had never been used before and might never be used again.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12875567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1539px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12875567 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Kalina_hunter_gatherer.jpg\" alt=\"Humans lived a purely nomadic life. Seen here a Kali'na hunter with a woman gatherer. 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Seen here is a Kali’na hunter with a woman gatherer. (Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"graf graf--p\" style=\"text-align: left\">Hamid weaves a wondrous web in \u003cem>Exit West \u003c/em>pitting extravagance against destitution—thereby forcing an examination of the nature of borders and the hostility toward newcomers. In an interview with Lithub, Hamid \u003ca href=\"http://lithub.com/the-first-post-brexit-novel-mohsin-hamids-exit-west/\">expressed\u003c/a> his thoughts on the political paralysis in America and Europe toward migrants, saying it stemmed from a denial that mass migration (with climate change and rising sea levels) is likely to be our future, but pointing out that it has also been our past. \u003cem>Exit West \u003c/em>seems to ask, is it not human nature to be transient? “For one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual,” Hamid writes, “and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"graf graf--p\" style=\"text-align: left\">Most of my family is still constantly moving—my parents have moved to countries near and far chasing after work. We are master packers and we seldom buy nice furniture because perhaps one day we will move. And in each new dwelling we take on, we always wash the walls, and do so as well when we leave, so as to be in communion with the firm spaces that will long outlast our transience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Moshin Hamid celebrates the publication of Exit West at Book Passage in the Ferry Building in San Francisco on Thursday, March 16, at 6 pm. \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/event/mohsin-hamid-exit-west-san-francisco\">Details here\u003c/a>. Hamid also reads at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco earlier that day at 3 pm. \u003ca href=\"https://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas/mohsin-hamid/\">Details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In reading and in life, I steer clear of anything that stinks of rose petals. I like telenovelas, but only to make fun of. I roll my eyes at Disney. I avoid romantic comedies like the plague. “I like things to be a little tragic,” I once told a lover as we parted ways. And I do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Abandon Me \u003c/em>by Melissa Febos, a meditation on the underpinnings of love and attraction, is some such tragic book, but it is also a searing examination of the self by putting our desire to love under a scalpel. In \u003cem>Abandon Me \u003c/em>love is longed for, looked for, unrequited, requited, and then lost in all the traditional ways, yet at every corner there is ash and bones and mirrors and startling specters that surprise both Febos and her lover, a married poet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12805406\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Melissa-Febos-by-Deborah-Feingold.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Febos.\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12805406\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Melissa-Febos-by-Deborah-Feingold.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Melissa-Febos-by-Deborah-Feingold-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Melissa-Febos-by-Deborah-Feingold-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Melissa-Febos-by-Deborah-Feingold-375x563.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Febos. \u003ccite>(Photo: Deborah Feingold)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Every story begins with an unraveling,” Febos writes. “This story starts with a kiss. Her mouth the soft nail on which my life snagged, and tore open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Febos’ first memoir, \u003cem>Whip Smart\u003c/em>, explored the author’s drug addiction and work as a dominatrix, but \u003cem>Abandon Me \u003c/em>is a journey to dissecting hunger, which is another of Febos’ words for love:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tenderness toward the object of our desire becomes an expression of love partly, I think, because it so defies the nature of want, whose instinct is often less to cuddle than to crush. My want was more gnash than kiss, more eat than embrace. I cared for my lover, but that kind of desire precludes many kinds of love. Hunger is selfish. I wanted her happiness. I also wanted to unzip my body and pull her into it, or crawl into hers. It is no accident that we go to the pulse. Lust is an urge to consume and perhaps there is no true expression of it that does not imply destruction. I can’t say. But even my tenderness for kittens includes an impulse to put them in my mouth.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There is something pioneering about the way Melissa Febos talks about love, connecting it to all its binary shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the paths forged by Eve Ensler and the futurist Mina Loy, Febos routes a new pathway. My favorite Ensler quote — \u003cem class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">That we find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us\u003c/em> — could easily have been dropped at any place in this book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12805002\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 462px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Glaspalast_Mu%CC%88nchen_1891_074b.jpg\" alt=\"'Victory of love,' an illustration by Léon Bazille Perrault. \" width=\"462\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12805002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Glaspalast_München_1891_074b.jpg 462w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Glaspalast_München_1891_074b-160x237.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Glaspalast_München_1891_074b-240x355.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Glaspalast_München_1891_074b-375x554.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Victory of love,’ an illustration by Léon Bazille Perrault. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Febos is a reader, a lover of stories. The adoptive daughter of a sea captain, Febos spent many hours in waiting of him. As an adult, she chose an unavailable woman she could wait for. She likens their relationship to the myth of Andromeda, who is stripped naked and chained to a rock so that her city may be spared from the wrath of the sea monster Cetus. Andromeda’s mother offended Poseidon, god of the oceans, and thus Andromeda paid for her mother’s transgression. “Like Andromeda, I knew already that fastening in me,” Febos writes, “but not which of us was rock or goddess or monster or rescue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at times the author’s scattered attention to dictionary definitions and symbols are mentioned so quickly as to be off-putting, this book as a treatise on the siren call that leads us to re-stage events that have wounded us, so that we can produce a different ending, is absolutely luminous. The writing is crisp and unsettling. And Febos’ view of love denudes all romanticism from it, which is as refreshing as it does ring true: “And when you love, when you become the home for someone else’s heart, you are like a house with a prisoner in the cellar. Your beloved hears the thump of that cellar door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg\" alt=\"Spine\" width=\"800\" height=\"42\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10905230\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/08/Spine-400x21.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Melissa Febos appears in conversation with Mallory Ortberg at Green Apple Books on Ninth Avenue in San Francisco on Thursday, March 16, at 7:30pm. \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-melissa-febos-conversation-mallory-ortberg\">Details here\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 4:10 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A literary treasure buried for more than a century has been unearthed by Zachary Turpin, a grad student at the University of Houston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a work of short fiction: a 36,000-word novella published anonymously, in six parts, in a New York newspaper in 1852. The discursive nature of the manuscript’s full title — \u003cem>Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography; In Which The Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters —\u003c/em> places it squarely in its literary era, as does its subtitle, \u003cem>A Story of New York at the Present Time\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The find was announced on Monday as the full book was \u003ca href=\"http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol34/iss3/3/\">published online\u003c/a> in the literary journal \u003cem>Walt Whitman Quarterly Review;\u003c/em> the University of Iowa Press is releasing it in book form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s notable about the novella is its author — the beloved American poet Walt Whitman — and its place in Whitman’s literary career. Just three years after \u003cem>Jack Engle\u003c/em> saw print, Whitman would publish the work that would enshrine him in the American canon: \u003cem>Leaves of Grass\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Monday’s announcement, it was believed Whitman spent the early 1850s at work on that magnum opus, publishing little of note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1842, Whitman had published another work of fiction, a harrowing “temperance novel” about a stouthearted young man whose life is nearly destroyed by alcohol. Whitman distanced himself from that early work and never publicly acknowledged authorship of \u003cem>Jack Engle.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turpin spoke to NPR about his discovery, made when he was scouring a vast online database of 19th century newspapers for names found in Whitman’s notebooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was wild,” he told \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>‘s Ari Shapiro. “The literary research that I do isn’t as glamorous as you might think. I was actually in a guest bedroom at my in-laws’, putting together a Pack-and-Play, and I got an email. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’m looking for are these very unique character names Whitman had written out — Wigglesworth, Smytthe … and the first thing I see on the page are those names. … It was surreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turpin describes the book as, among other things, Dickensian. “It’s also a sentimental novel; it’s also city mystery novel. It’s multifaceted, let’s put it that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how \u003cem>Jack Engle\u003c/em> intersects \u003cem>Leaves of Grass\u003c/em>, Turpin says, “They’re apples and oranges. You have certain passages like [those excerpted below] that are remarkably similar, that presages … \u003cem>Leaves of Grass,\u003c/em> which he was probably writing simultaneously. … There are also elements that are wildly different — chases across New York and romances and scheming, mustache-twisting villains are not the stuff of \u003cem>Leaves of Grass,\u003c/em> but these are the stuff of Whitman’s long and storied fiction career, and career as a journalist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what Turpin thinks of the the work itself, he says, “I’m really blown away by this book. … It’s all things to all men. It’s weird, it’s wild, it’s beautiful and hilarious, and turns on a dime in ways that are both great and terrible. It’s truly phenomenal, and I think something that everyone will enjoy picking up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the second time in as many years Turpin has made such a discovery. Previously, he found another Whitman manuscript, a series of articles offering tips for a healthy and vigorous lifestyle, in another newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if historians should respect Whitman’s wish for his early work to “be dropped in oblivion,” Turpin says, “I respect that … on the other hand, Whitman’s greatest wish was to be the greatest and most famous poet in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this excerpt, the narrator stops into the graveyard of Manhattan’s Trinity Church and muses about mortality. Turpin and other Whitman scholars believe this section offers a glimpse of the poet engaging with some of the same language and themes that would define \u003cem>Leaves of Grass:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“Truly, life is sweet to the young man.—Such bounding and swelling capacities for joy reside within him, and such ambitious yearnings. Health and unfettered spirits are his staff and mantle. He learns unthinkingly to love—that glorious privilege of youth! Out of the tiny fractions of his experience, he builds beautiful imaginings, and confidently looks for the future to realize them. And then he is so sure of those future years. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out there in the fashionable thoroughfare, how bustling was life, and how jauntily it wandered close along the side of those warnings of its inevitable end. How gay that throng along the walk! 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"content": "\u003cp>The expansiveness of Maya Angelou’s voice reaches from the stoops of neighborhoods in urban America to podiums in capitol buildings and presidential palaces in Africa. And while her poetry and fiction are well recognized, her contributions to the world of children’s literature are less familiar to readers — but just as important. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/01/20/maya-angelou-legacy-of-an-artist/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maya_300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12735398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three decades at UC Berkeley and Mills College, I taught “New Dawn on the Horizon: A Survey of Third World Children’s Literature.” In the class, I referenced and utilized works dating from the late 19th century up to the early 21st century. Along with Alpha Angela, Bratton, Arna Bontemps, Shirley Graham DuBois, Lucille Clifton and June Jordan, my syllabus included children’s books by Angelou. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many other adult poets and novelists who’ve also written wonderful children’s books — Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, for example — Angelou’s contributions to children’s literature were imaginatively crafted and centered on socially conscious topics. They were illustrated by notable artists, including Caldecott Honor Award winner Tom Feelings and young legendary painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and these creative partnerships resulted in celebrated works like \u003cem>Life Doesn’t Frighten Me\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Souls Look Back in Wonder\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12740804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Obama and Maya Angelou speak during the BET Honors 2012 \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12740804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Obama and Maya Angelou speak during the BET Honors 2012. \u003ccite>(Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her collaborations with Feelings reflect a kind of tenderness, dignity and self-acceptance that parents, teachers, librarians and young readers seek. The tenderness and unwavering dignity found in \u003cem>Souls Look Back in Wonder\u003c/em>, an illustrated anthology that features works by award-winning writers including Alexis DeVeaux, Askia M. Toure and Walter Dean Myers, nourishes the soul and inspires young minds to grow through the powerful lens of black life and culture. Feelings and Angelou’s work together on \u003cem>Now Sheba Sings the Song\u003c/em> is filled with his sepia rich illustrations and her lyrical poetry. The book pays a timeless homage to the beauty, historical strength and resolute magic of black women. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12778177\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 627px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for 'Life Doesn't Frighten Me'\" width=\"627\" height=\"773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12778177\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews.jpg 627w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews-160x197.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews-240x296.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews-375x462.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews-520x641.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover for ‘Life Doesn’t Frighten Me’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Angelou and Basquiat’s \u003cem>Life Doesn’t Frighten Me\u003c/em>, the author and illustrator help families navigate some of the real and imagined terrors foisted upon children in today’s world. Basquiat’s illustrations are rendered with the fright that overtakes the imaginations of so many kids, while Angelou’s words drum up the courage they need to help them live beyond the fright and terror:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shadows on the wall\u003cbr>\nNoises down the hall\u003cbr>\nLife doesn’t frighten me at all\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tough guys fight\u003cbr>\nAll alone at night\u003cbr>\nLife doesn’t frighten me at all\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dragons breathing flame on my counterpane\u003cbr>\nThat doesn’t frighten me at all\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Makes you feel like you can take on anything, doesn’t it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that Angelou’s rich literary life included works for children is a testimony to her vision and her commitment to words. Through books she wrote for adolescents, she demonstrates the depth of her brilliance, and exemplifies the ways humanity can create a world that turns on a bounty of imagination and creativity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Daphne Muse is a writer, social commentator and poet who lived in the culturally dynamic Fruitvale District of Oakland, Calif. for 41 years. She just completed her fifth book, \u003cstrong>The Cousins are Coming! The Cousins are Coming!\u003c/strong> She now resides in Brentwood, Calif. observing life through a different lens seasoned by her decades of activism and writing the world through her extensive travels in South Africa, Suriname, Mississippi, and Cuba. Her collection of multicultural children’s literature is now housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library and in 2014 was featured in \u003cstrong>On These I Stand: An Exhibit of Rare Black Books and Collectibles.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And while her poetry and fiction are well recognized, her contributions to the world of children’s literature are less familiar to readers — but just as important. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/01/20/maya-angelou-legacy-of-an-artist/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maya_300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12735398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300.jpg 300w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three decades at UC Berkeley and Mills College, I taught “New Dawn on the Horizon: A Survey of Third World Children’s Literature.” In the class, I referenced and utilized works dating from the late 19th century up to the early 21st century. Along with Alpha Angela, Bratton, Arna Bontemps, Shirley Graham DuBois, Lucille Clifton and June Jordan, my syllabus included children’s books by Angelou. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many other adult poets and novelists who’ve also written wonderful children’s books — Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, for example — Angelou’s contributions to children’s literature were imaginatively crafted and centered on socially conscious topics. They were illustrated by notable artists, including Caldecott Honor Award winner Tom Feelings and young legendary painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and these creative partnerships resulted in celebrated works like \u003cem>Life Doesn’t Frighten Me\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Souls Look Back in Wonder\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12740804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Obama and Maya Angelou speak during the BET Honors 2012 \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12740804\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Maya-Michelle-Obama-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Obama and Maya Angelou speak during the BET Honors 2012. \u003ccite>(Photo: Kris Connor/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her collaborations with Feelings reflect a kind of tenderness, dignity and self-acceptance that parents, teachers, librarians and young readers seek. The tenderness and unwavering dignity found in \u003cem>Souls Look Back in Wonder\u003c/em>, an illustrated anthology that features works by award-winning writers including Alexis DeVeaux, Askia M. Toure and Walter Dean Myers, nourishes the soul and inspires young minds to grow through the powerful lens of black life and culture. Feelings and Angelou’s work together on \u003cem>Now Sheba Sings the Song\u003c/em> is filled with his sepia rich illustrations and her lyrical poetry. The book pays a timeless homage to the beauty, historical strength and resolute magic of black women. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12778177\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 627px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for 'Life Doesn't Frighten Me'\" width=\"627\" height=\"773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12778177\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews.jpg 627w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews-160x197.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews-240x296.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews-375x462.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/LIFE-1pgReviews-520x641.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover for ‘Life Doesn’t Frighten Me’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Angelou and Basquiat’s \u003cem>Life Doesn’t Frighten Me\u003c/em>, the author and illustrator help families navigate some of the real and imagined terrors foisted upon children in today’s world. Basquiat’s illustrations are rendered with the fright that overtakes the imaginations of so many kids, while Angelou’s words drum up the courage they need to help them live beyond the fright and terror:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shadows on the wall\u003cbr>\nNoises down the hall\u003cbr>\nLife doesn’t frighten me at all\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tough guys fight\u003cbr>\nAll alone at night\u003cbr>\nLife doesn’t frighten me at all\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dragons breathing flame on my counterpane\u003cbr>\nThat doesn’t frighten me at all\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Makes you feel like you can take on anything, doesn’t it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that Angelou’s rich literary life included works for children is a testimony to her vision and her commitment to words. Through books she wrote for adolescents, she demonstrates the depth of her brilliance, and exemplifies the ways humanity can create a world that turns on a bounty of imagination and creativity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Daphne Muse is a writer, social commentator and poet who lived in the culturally dynamic Fruitvale District of Oakland, Calif. for 41 years. She just completed her fifth book, \u003cstrong>The Cousins are Coming! The Cousins are Coming!\u003c/strong> She now resides in Brentwood, Calif. observing life through a different lens seasoned by her decades of activism and writing the world through her extensive travels in South Africa, Suriname, Mississippi, and Cuba. Her collection of multicultural children’s literature is now housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library and in 2014 was featured in \u003cstrong>On These I Stand: An Exhibit of Rare Black Books and Collectibles.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Like many, my entry came on the heels of hardship. Back then, I was a new mother transitioning into a life of being single. I was out of employment and full of feeling. I was searching for direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dear playwright and friend, Akin Salawu, began sending me a lot of encouragement. After many months of exchanging messages, he asked for my home address. I’d forgotten I’d answered until a few weeks later, when a small package arrived at my apartment in Union City. Inside was a book called \u003cem>Discover the Power Within You: A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within\u003c/em> by Eric Butterworth. Unfamiliar with the title or its author, I flipped open the book and there she was all tucked away like a jewel:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Discover the Power Within You\u003c/em>, a foreword by Maya Angelou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My heart opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain what it feels like to have your heart open is to describe the warm feeling of joy, of belonging, of willing connection. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here I was with Maya. We were two black single mothers — two black women artists — both attempting to find God and divinity within ourselves. In that moment, I was reminded of the inextricable link between what we might imagine and what we might create. It would be easy to imagine hardship, outsider-ness, mortality, and I could create that feeling in a moment’s notice. However, what I found was a lineage of so much more. It was a feeling beyond sight or touch; a new creation; it was a lineage of love. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the power within. This is the force that could bring about a poor Black girl from Stamps, Arkansas, and bloom her into being; bloom her into measures beyond her immediate environment. In her poet’s way, she began this alchemical process for me, this spiritual unfolding toward the Being I might become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using passages from the introduction to \u003cem>Discover the Power Within You\u003c/em>, I’ll attempt to unfold a bit further the spiritual insights Maya left tucked away in unexpected places. Here lies practical advice for incorporating a more spirit-filled life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our power is God\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelou writes, “The power of God, the essential spirit, is within each of us. We can ignore that, or we can draw upon it and decide to grow. We can heal ourselves.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do we heal ourselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We work with change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the power” she says, “to call it up [change] and bring it about sooner by working at it..we could either mold it to our needs and the needs of others, or be run over by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Momentum is created by change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spirituality is not a condition, it’s a path. One is static, the other is active”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We activate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find that prayer and meditation are elemental. Guidance comes from those practices. Sometimes in meditation one really tries to think of nothing. I do, anyway. I try to make myself a quiet vessel, a quiet pool where my ideas can rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We initiate\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prayer, on the other hand, does focus and keeps the focus in focus. I think that I use both to get myself out of the way. Sometimes our daily problems can so impede our progress to quietude that one needs to step aside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We step aside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think when we step aside, when we get apart from everyone else and any other ideas and meditate and pray, I think that we can be led to the knowledge of how to meet our next challenge, whatever it is— whether it’s physical, psychological, practice, social. I believe that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We believe in asking for everything\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask for everything,\u003cbr>\neverything I need,\u003cbr>\nand I have much more than I need\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you get, give.\u003cbr>\nWhen you learn, teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plant one tomato seed and it comes up,\u003cbr>\nit will bring thousands of what you planted.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We plant so that we might live\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People say I am remembered by various things, but I hope one of them would be the encouragement to live the life you want to live. Live your life so that you will not leave too many things undone. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Live the life you sign about.\u003cbr>\nLive the life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We live\u003cbr>\nthe life\u003cbr>\nwe sing\u003cbr>\nabout\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A-lan Holt is a poet and playwright based in the Bay Area. She is the author of \u003cem>Moonwork\u003c/em>, a collection of poems, and the Associate Director at the Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts. Connect with Holt on Instagram \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/a_lanmoon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>, see her personal site \u003ca href=\"http://www.a-lan.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>, and read a KQED Arts ‘Women to Watch’ profile of her \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/07/07/women-to-watch-a-lan-holt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In her poet’s way, she began this alchemical process for me, this spiritual unfolding toward the Being I might become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using passages from the introduction to \u003cem>Discover the Power Within You\u003c/em>, I’ll attempt to unfold a bit further the spiritual insights Maya left tucked away in unexpected places. Here lies practical advice for incorporating a more spirit-filled life. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our power is God\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angelou writes, “The power of God, the essential spirit, is within each of us. We can ignore that, or we can draw upon it and decide to grow. 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