1 Claudia F. Saleeby and John C. Savage, Thick In The Throat Honey, “Music Your Work New” Alice Coltrane and Discovers the World G/god is B/born by Ruth Ellen Kocher Brimmed sea light and green harp You know the squid spun sea Phosphorescent chum Her fingers from which the sea From which blue tortoise spin and drive to swim to swim To swim and the creatures all get it, dig? Swim, swim Shore to swim fur to shore warm fanged winters beast And prey dawn and light plant and seed. Man, of course, beast Comes from a harp. His wings damp still deep in the rib harp His first hunger. First hear hunger’s pangs harp. Harp. _________________________________________________________________________ (Safiya Sinclair, 1985-present) “All night the world bled on my fang” (Ruth Ellen Kocher, 1965-present) “my sky is my sky and you do not share it.” “it is true there were raspberries in the refrigerator.” (Tyehimba Jess, 1965-present) “we sing past rage, seeped in the glow of hand-me-down courage” Donika Kelly (1984-present) “you try to imagine what the bear feels” (Idea Vilariño, 1920-2009)—She was an Uruguayan poet, essayist and literary critic “It’s enough that you are in the world”

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1 Claudia F. Saleeby and John C. Savage, Thick In The Throat Honey, “Music Your Work New”

Alice Coltrane and Discovers the World G/god is B/born by Ruth Ellen Kocher

Brimmed sea light and green harp You know the squid spun sea Phosphorescent chum Her fingers from which the sea From which blue tortoise spin and drive to swim to swim To swim and the creatures all get it, dig? Swim, swim Shore to swim fur to shore warm fanged winters beast And prey dawn and light plant and seed. Man, of course, beast Comes from a harp. His wings damp still deep in the rib harp His first hunger. First hear hunger’s pangs harp. Harp. _________________________________________________________________________

(Safiya Sinclair, 1985-present) “All night the world bled on my fang” (Ruth Ellen Kocher, 1965-present) “my sky is my sky and you do not share it.” “it is true there were raspberries in the refrigerator.” (Tyehimba Jess, 1965-present) “we sing past rage, seeped in the glow of hand-me-down courage” Donika Kelly (1984-present) “you try to imagine what the bear feels” (Idea Vilariño, 1920-2009)—She was an Uruguayan poet, essayist and literary critic “It’s enough that you are in the world”