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  • 2 days ago | theguardian.com | Monica Uszerowicz

    In Locked Down, a song by the San Diego-based poet and rapper, Chance, she sings with both foreboding and care: “Every day that you wake up you’re blessed / love every breath, ’cause you don’t know what’s next.” Chance wrote the song – originally a poem, its title a callback to Akon’s Locked Up – while imprisoned in Phoenix, Arizona, during the beginning of the Covid pandemic and subsequent lockdown (“six feet apart in a five-by-five,” she raps in the same song, alluding to the virtual...

  • 1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Monica Uszerowicz

    20 Images The Arabic phrase “haraka baraka” – or “al haraka baraka” – translates to “movement is a blessing” or “in movement, there is blessing”. The poetic aphorism might refer to many movements and shifts: moving the body, moving across borders, keeping resources flowing. To even imagine movement is blessed; “If you move,” a dear friend told me, “you’ll be provided for.” And is there a movement more freeing, more graceful, than the sort which skateboarding necessitates?

  • Feb 27, 2025 | momus.ca | Monica Uszerowicz

    In what ways is a mother like a tree? A mother—a caregiver, really, because lineages are built not merely by blood and biology but with tenderness and with time—nourishes and guards and shades the ones they love. Whether or not the “mother tree” theory is factual, the phenomenon of family is not specific to humans. A tree’s roots extend toward its kin, cultivating a clan of earth-tenders.

  • Feb 27, 2025 | momus.ca | Monica Uszerowicz

    In what ways is a mother like a tree? A mother—a caregiver, really, because lineages are built not merely by blood and biology but…

  • Feb 18, 2025 | bombmagazine.org | Monica Uszerowicz |Chantal Akerman

    Ana María Caballero and Denise Duhamel met when Caballero became Duhamel's graduate poetry student at Florida International University (FIU). A friendship quickly developed, and they worked together on theVERSEverse, a digital poetry gallery Caballero co-founded. Most recently, the two writers met via video conference to discuss motherhood, poetry, and how they handle that mother lode, a rich source of material, in their latest books.

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8 May 25

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RT @AsadFromNYC: They never publish essays like this from a longstanding Black Bed-Stuy local or a Bengali from Kensington etc. It’s always…

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1 May 25

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