Articles from the ‘Poetry’ collection

Four dancers in a dark studio hover in a circle and reach their hands to the floor in a small pool of light from a flashlight held by one of the dancers.

What Remains, What Becomes

Pioneer Winter of Miami, FL, explores the difference between holding versus keeping through commemorating the generation lost to HIV/AIDS and to his mother who died when he was young.

Like ghosts, black and white abstract figures move in and out of a open-topped box with doorways.

Gaga & Permanent Records Roadhouse

Los Angeles-based writer and dancer Benjie Salazar evokes exploring movement in a studio during a rainstorm in their poem “Gaga & Permanent Records Roadhouse.”

An outline in red of an abstract figure moving against embossed white paper.

New Orleans

Albuquerque-based poet and choreographer Tara King’s poem “New Orleans” brings to visceral life the air coursing through a body while enjoying “The Big Easy.”

A black and white abstract illustration.

strikethrough #1

Dancer, poet, and filmmaker Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş poem “strikethrough #1” is part of a project using erasure poetry to create choreographic scores.

A backlit blurry image of a dancer with her hair moving with her as she twirls.

Three Thoughts on Moving

Dance artist Erica Pisarchuk Wilson explores position, weight, and sound through poetry.