Is That What I Am Holding?

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY CATHERINE MARIE DAVALOS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT My back has been watched, the hipbone hurting for six episodes. I keep finding places, new palettes of expression to nothing. I turn, a different person, older, tired. Is that what I am holding? […]

April 17, 2017  |  Read Article

Dancing Within the Deep Blue Sea

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY DELPHINE HSINI MEI; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Pillow Willow Bridges of thoughts lead his path to home Once been found He was a child wandering wild In the palace of her heart She dances Steps that ease his wounds Sparks the […]

April 13, 2017  |  Read Article

Coat

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Do you see your body                 hanging off you                 like a coat on a warm spring day? Pull up your skin                 like a pair of underwear                 and prepare to move in it. […]

April 10, 2017  |  Read Article

Duende

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY MADISON KREKEL; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Only in service to you Can I feel the most free My brain powers down I do not move from intellect I can taste everything But I do not try to define it My love […]

April 6, 2017  |  Read Article

Secrets

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY NATALIE DERYN JOHNSON; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT Tell me your secrets, but don’t use your words. Melt your flesh into mine and resonate in the reverb. In your connective tissue lives the fossils of your soul. Unearth the crystallized stories. Sew […]

April 3, 2017  |  Read Article