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Beyond the Bars: Growing Home

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements June 19, 2015 2781 Telegraph Oakland CA 94612 6:00-8:00 PM – FREE Beyond the Bars: Growing Home is a dramatic stage reading derived from the stories of Green Life participants who are formerly incarcerated and re-entering Bay Area communities. … Continue reading →

Posted in artist scholar, arts scholarship, Performance work | Tagged Arts, ayo nzinga, black arts, genocide, identity, incarceration | Leave a comment

gentrified

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements like a Palestinian boy with just a pile of rock i am helpless they are the invaders they have invaded grammie’s garden cutting down the bell tree planting sustainable drought resistant grasses that don’t take me home like the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged discontinuity, displacement, gentrification, home, identity, Memory | Leave a comment

ghost words

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements when a language dies there is no funeral the grief has no words silent as a dead forest memories unclaimed like loss baggage carrying home gone now with the words to describe the new sunrise the look in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged culture, identity, language, Memory, worldview | Leave a comment

linqua

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements separated from the words left only with the experience outside words no reason outside language the imperatives that bind me are impenetrable separating me from knowing how to heal myself I suffer without words to describe the pain that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged identity, language, linquicide, loss of culture, Memory, trauma | Leave a comment

lynching tree memoy

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements there are things I can never do i do not take certain things for granted no rose garden only grey tinted glasses blessed with memory too many people afraid to remember least the scars come open pus all over … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Arts, North American African Perspective | Tagged august wilson, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, blk arts, complex trauma, cotton, identity, joe turner, law, lynching tree, lyrical poetry, narrative poetry, poetry, race, spokenword, the ground on which I stand, warrior art | 1 Comment

Baggage

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements there are things i know things that came with me things older than me older than my mother and her mother things from the wind things from the ocean things sung by the dirt i remember the roll on … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Arts, North American African Perspective, spokenword | Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, black arts, identity, lyrical poetry, narrative poetry, North American African Perspective, poems, poetry, politics, that new millennium dime | 1 Comment

idenity

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements tempered, forged, amalgamated solid containing an internal logic no predicable ambient point not likely to melt in benign circumstance likely to reassemble in its original pattern coalesced from remnants stubborn essential parts determining a whole complete with its own … Continue reading →

Posted in North American African Perspective, Poetry | Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, BAM, black arts, identity, lyrical poetry, narrative poetry, North American African Perspective, warrior art | Leave a comment

Family

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements before the war on families we were different together warm handsdeep voicesroses in the springmelon in the summerschool clothescar vacationsaunts unclesgrandpas’ & granniespresents on Christmas morningEaster dinnerchurch on new years eve we were holding vigilkeeping the watch granny said … Continue reading →

Posted in North American African Perspective, Poetry | Tagged ayodele wordslanger nzinga, BAM, black arts, black family, family, identity, lyrical poetry, narrative poetry, North American African Perspective | Leave a comment

Nambie

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements you know nothing of my life neither the contours or its jagged torn edges not its superfluity nor me in my sublimity the salient sweet funk radiating out of my unborn thought dressed in melanin the saving grace of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Arts, North American African Perspective, Poetry, spokenword | Tagged appropriation, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, identity, invisible life, lyrical poetry, narrative, narrative poetry, north american african poetry, poems, poetry, race, story, visibility | Leave a comment

suicide note to frantz fanon

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

Advertisements & when i did become this pale non-reflection of myself when did i slip into the suit you brought with you discarding myself to fit inside not be left on the margin bleeding and dying like the naked savages … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Arts, North American African Perspective, Performing Arts, Poetry | Tagged asimilization, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, identity, invisible narratives, nation building, North American African Perspective, post traumatic slave syndrome, Stockholm syndrome | Leave a comment

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