The Summer of Your Passing

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY EUGENE WILLIAMS; ILLUSTRATION BY CAMILLE TAFT There were angels and dragons in the sunset Lightning bugs rose in waves over the beans and corn From the woods, the screech owl called telling us your journey was smooth Under the full moon […]

April 26, 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

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