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

Writing the Dance

An Interview with Cheryl Pallant BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Cheryl Pallant is a dancer, writer and professor in Richmond, Virginia. She has published several books of poetry and nonfiction, as well as many articles. She discusses the convergence of dancing and writing in her life, and how one feeds the other. […]

October 26, 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