My Stage

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POEM AND ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT My stage: Red rug Inlaid with gold Protective symbols of “Stay” and “Play”   My audience: Dear Divine.   I am the night The night is I:   Limbs Ground Reach Gather Strength Release Worry Trace […]

April 19, 2018  |  Read Article

Forget Your Perfect Offering

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT leaves are my colors rain sweetened dirt my longing   my bones know gravity  ash languages my mouth has forgotten   I might say mourning dove say owl drowning in thick air   practice imperfect […]

April 16, 2018  |  Read Article

Exploring an Empty Dance Studio

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY GWYN HENRY; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT I embrace the corner this juncture of walls a meeting place for spine and sheet rock.   Demarcation. A map, a sign: this way will hold you true.   As I go along the wall […]

April 12, 2018  |  Read Article

My Body’s Notebook

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CONSUELO GONZALEZ; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT A prayer is rolling in like fog on the smooth wood floor, waiting to be kicked up by our heels and toes and stirred. A prayer is our energy focused, dancing a trio, moving from […]

April 9, 2018  |  Read Article

Let Pretense Go

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CHERYL PALLANT; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   This she is also an I. I am listening. There is this way of knowing. With bones, breath, a sideways glance, a whisper.   She walks across grass and down the corridor, struts in […]

April 5, 2018  |  Read Article