Piñata Solo

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY LIZ BOUBION; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT In the beginning, I am a beet red baby born in a heat wave in the LA basin. Candy melts inside a pinata moon hanging in the backyard Four sweaty brothers with grass-stained knees line […]

April 27, 2017  |  Read Article

I Want to Give You the Lines

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY SEBASTIAN GRUBB; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT I want to give you the lines from my palms, give you the twisting circuitry of my heart, the music of valves with blood rushing through, the flutter of eyelashes brushing skin;   give you […]

April 24, 2017  |  Read Article

The Man from Cleveland is Leaving

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT 10 years in this land with no Bros no Black humor no one watching your back   this is not a scramble at the market with a boom box back up band or an all […]

April 22, 2017  |  Read Article

Field Notes

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY JUSTINE HIGHSMITH; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT touch. ground. open.   floor duets they witness apart, foot by inch   humming body, still roaring teeth in bone-white jaw compression of a thousand, maybe two thousand more eons of skin on dirt place […]

April 20, 2017  |  Read Article

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