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

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

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