Modern Griots Reviews: Salome Da Voodoo Princess of Nawlins

One of the most compelling aspects about art is that it can make you feel different emotions at the same time depending on the multiple contexts that you bring to it and the representations presented to you. For example, there is a lot of conversation surrounding the multiple receptions and audiences for Kara Walker’s Marvelous […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: My Poetry 2

I wrote this poem a few weeks ago, but after I read Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray yesterday, I revised it: In my detached, Disordered room Stands two mirrors On a brown wooden Dresser – veiled shadows in this chest, a frame gilded in stripes and flowers – I see myself in one’s […]