Forget Your Perfect Offering

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT leaves are my colors rain sweetened dirt my longing   my bones know gravity  ash languages my mouth has forgotten   I might say mourning dove say owl drowning in thick air   practice imperfect […]

April 16, 2018  |  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

That Skirt

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! BY RACHELLE WOODS; ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ BRENT   dramas dance down the sidewalk I want that skirt want a level of magic a body heightened experience   when the poet’s son and the reciter’s daughter dance it is magic healing, acceptance of […]

April 7, 2016  |  Read Article

Surprise!

Happy National Poetry Month from Stance on Dance! POETRY BY RACHELLE WOODS; ARTWORK BY VIDA VILJOEN try please only try   penetrate eyes patterns   support transformation unity   submit to a magic man   be full the sacred fool   follow impulse cultivate energy   allow no judgment liberate […]

April 6, 2015  |  Read Article