Where mathematics meets God,
where the cacophony of every human voice is harnessed
into an ordered and purposeful whole —
that’s where you reside. Yet
how unlikely, how perverse even,
that your name should sound like someone
clearing his throat,
preparing to expectorate in a most unmelodic way.
The University of Michigan recently compiled the nation’s strictest set of “sensitivity guidelines” for their faculty and students. We take you to a faculty lounge on the Ann Arbor campus.
INT – A faculty lounge on a Friday afternoon. Several TEACHERS gather around the water cooler.
NATE: . . .so I told Jenkins, “Hey, come on, man. It’s Friday afternoon. Let’s not get all wrapped up in graduation rates. Enjoy the weekend, get refreshed,…
Writer, poet, artist, improviser, lyricist, former television personality, and generally decent person.
“I write to you from the predicament of Blackness,” is the opening line of Xandria Phillips’ new collection of poems, “Reasons for Smoking.” Unwritten, but deeply felt, is the predicament of Femaleness. And Gayness. And Differentness. All these challenges are met (and rhetorically bested) by this fierce poet’s keen sense of self and of the...
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