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

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

Wind of My Soul

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY LAURA HAYES-MEERMAN; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT The wind blows So softly Through my lips. The right side Holds so much. Opening my pelvis I drop deep And feel my sorrow. I hold so much Do I dare Speak my truth. The […]

April 2, 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

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