tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96338752024-03-13T00:13:45.015-04:00Poetry HeadquartersA forum. Freaky-styley or eloquently rendered rants, opinions and Big Dreams. Poems and sorrows. Wonderments...sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.comBlogger585125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-32264910705800779672023-12-27T03:14:00.008-05:002023-12-30T09:57:36.716-05:00FILMS VIEWED<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Everything Everywhere All At Once</li><li>Interstellar</li><li>When The Levee Breaks</li><li>Spider-man: Across The Spider-verse<br /> </li></ul>sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-11316629817704253452023-04-04T11:53:00.001-04:002023-04-04T11:53:12.328-04:00poem 10/21/2019<p> i have a narrative</p><p>a narrative of/fear/</p><p> and loss of</p><p>self esteem</p><p>a narrative of</p><p> heartbeat shaking</p><p>cold anxiety - it is</p><p>a narrative often i am</p><p> compelled</p><p>to share/but often i am</p><p>tired</p><p>tired of hearing myself</p><p>just break through!</p><p>but here/nine years later</p><p>this narrative </p><p>still exists<br /></p><p><br /></p>sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-40853390376302266572023-04-04T11:47:00.003-04:002023-08-09T13:32:18.388-04:00poem 3/15/2018<p> storm system moving across<span> </span></p><p><span>the play of light and rain</span></p><p><span>clouds disperse/in the distance</span></p><p><span>the thunder rolls</span></p><p><span>birds give voice</span></p><p><span> to the sweetness </span></p><p><span>that is now </span></p><p><br /></p>sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-24783080557298177662023-03-20T16:45:00.004-04:002023-03-20T16:47:14.334-04:00Hex triplet<p> Azure expansion into the</p><p>unlimited Universe</p><p>pulled by this Season's</p><p>changing</p><p>the</p><p>Vernal equinox</p><p>the </p><p>New Moon<br /></p>sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-74037520154728932402020-05-01T19:10:00.002-04:002020-05-01T19:12:06.353-04:00Film viewedIn celebration of May Day, "SORRY TO BOTHER YOU" - directed by Boots Riley, 2018sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-9498275684964007522020-01-03T18:42:00.000-05:002020-01-03T18:42:14.462-05:00Verb: to rememberI am of this World, of this Earth. I breathe this air as i look at this sky, these clouds. This world is not out to get me. I am safe and grounded as my feet touch this soil. Even as i am driving, i am realizing this, as incongruous as that may seem. I see a hawk. I see the Crescent Moon rising. I am home.sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-11936493787408248192019-08-15T19:35:00.002-04:002019-08-15T23:11:42.611-04:00poem...not a haikuCorn Moon<br />
Cherries Turn Black Moon<br />
Full Moon light/casting<br />
hollyhock shadows<br />
as<br />
three Owls call<br />
across the mountainsandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-36965903272222705592019-07-25T18:11:00.000-04:002019-07-25T18:11:05.449-04:00my life is now complete"Moonlight" - directed by Barry Jenkins (2016)sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-78494350753505687752019-07-22T13:58:00.001-04:002019-07-22T13:58:41.953-04:00and another!"Paris Is Burning" - directed by Jennie Livingston (1990)sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-48475847986013205552019-07-11T18:51:00.000-04:002019-07-11T18:51:34.999-04:00film viewed, finally"Moon" -directed by Duncan Jones (2009)sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-29536653788788350982018-04-05T02:54:00.001-04:002018-04-05T02:58:51.533-04:00poemthe vast stretch of city lights on<br />
the horizon<br />
forms an unnerving necklace<br />
for the<br />
rising<br />
orange Moonsandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-17031388537751364292018-02-22T19:45:00.001-05:002018-02-22T19:45:30.591-05:00this is not a "dream" posti can tell that i am still depressed<br />
when i don't have the energy<br />
to write<br />
even though<br />
my last dream was very detail-rich<br />
and interestingsandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-88168179293344644082018-02-21T16:00:00.000-05:002018-02-22T19:50:15.672-05:00i'm looking at you, Hanifwhen you read an<br />
astounding<br />
poet<br />
and all of your subsequent thoughts<br />
are in<br />
lyrical cadence/<br />
it is the inspiration that<br />
centers yousandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-6760589823985434182018-02-20T12:13:00.001-05:002018-02-20T12:13:21.965-05:00quoting truth"But I can say right here and now that the absence of a day in honor of the end of slavery in this country is shameful, which to my mind makes it unjust - the opposite of justice." - Ntozake Shange in the essay 'justice', from <u>lost in language & sound</u>. *POW*sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-79223424841391720032018-01-01T10:50:00.001-05:002018-01-24T03:14:47.014-05:00Craft Beer: 2017<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Brrr Hoppy Red” </b>ale
– <u>Widmer Brothers
Brewing</u>,
Portland OR</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Unearthed”</b>barrel-aged
stout – <u>Long
Trail Brewing Co.</u>,
Bridgewater Corners VT</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Christmas
Morning”</b>
coffee bean conditioned gingerbread stout- <u>Hardywood
Park Craft Brewery</u>,
Richmond VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Autumn
Maple” </b>brown
ale – <u>The
Bruery</u>,
Placentia CA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Sunday
Mole”</b>
Imperial stout – <u>Weyerbacher
Brewing Co.</u>,
Easton PA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Orange
Is The New Stout”</b>Imperial
chocolate stout – collaboration: <u>Center
Of The Universe Brewing Co.</u>,
Ashland VA & <u>O'Connor
Brewing Co.</u>,
Norfolk VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Bourbon
Barrel German Chocolate Cake</b>
lager- <u>Lickinghole Creek
Craft Brewery</u>,
Goochland VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Shiner
Cold-brew Coffee Ale</b> –
<u>Spoetzl Brewery</u>,
Shiner TX</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Promise
Gone Aw-Rye” </b>red rye IPA –
<u>Rogue Ales</u>,
Newport OR</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Live
Wire”</b>IPA – <u>Ocelot
Brewing Co.</u>, Dulles VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Invisible
Art”</b> bourbon barrel-aged
black IPA – <u>Adroit
Theory Brewing Co.</u>,
Sterling VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>6<sup>th</sup>
Seal”</b> chocolate stout –
<u>Apocalypse Ale Works</u>,
Forest VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>People's
Porter”</b> - <u>Foothills
Brewing</u>, Winston Salem
NC</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Evil
8”</b> Belgian-style Dubbel –
<u>Blue Mountain Brewery</u>,
Nelson County VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Hotbox
Coffee Porter”</b> - <u>Oskar
BluesBrewery</u>, Longmont
CO</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Ripper”</b>
pale ale – <u>Stone
Brewing</u>, Escondido CA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Rabid
Duck”</b> Russian Imperial stout
– <u>The Duck-Rabbit
Craft Brewery</u>,
Farmville NC</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Dark
Hours”</b> Genius Loci Series:
Imperial stout – <u>Lost
Rhino Brewing Co.</u>,
Ashburn VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Fresh
Tracks”</b> pale ale – <u>Harpoon
Brewery</u>, Boston MA &
Windsor VT</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Roundhouse”</b>
India red ale w/honey – <u>Bell's
Brewery, INC.</u>, Comstock
MI</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Devil's
Tramping Ground Tripel”</b>
unfiltered ale – <u>Aviator
Brewing Co.</u>,
Fuquay-Varina NC</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Partner
Ships: Imperial Brown IPA”</b> -
collaboration: <u>Clipper
City Brewing Co.</u>,
Baltimore MD & <u>Stone
Brewing</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Frootwood”</b>
maple syrup bourbon barrel-aged cherry ale – <u>Founders
Brewing Co.</u>, Grand
Rapids MI</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Selassie”</b>
Imperial stout w/Ethiopian coffee beans & vanilla – <u>Omnipollo</u>
at <u>Crazy Mountain
Brewing Co.</u>, Denver CO</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Hopfen
Ale” </b>German-style IPA –
<u>Sierra Nevada Brewing
Co.</u>, Mills River, NC</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Peach
IPA</b> – <u>Sierra
Nevada</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Dark
Hollow”</b> Bourbon barrel-aged
Imperial stout w/Chocolate & coffee – <u>Blue
Mountain Barrel House</u>,
Arrington VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>2016
“Black Note Stout” </b>Bourbon
barrel-aged – <u>Bell's</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Uber
Home”</b> DIPA – <u>Ocelot</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Pounding
Trees”</b> DIPA – <u>3
Stars Brewing Co.</u>,
Washington D.C.</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Headspace”</b>
IPA – <u>Kindred Spirit
Brewing</u>, Richmond VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Superb
India Pale Ale”</b> - <u>Alewerks
Brewing Co.</u>,
Williamsburg VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Hop
Cooler”</b> citrus IPA –
<u>Ninkasi Brewing Co.</u>,
Eugene OR</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Archdruid”</b>
red ale aged in Irish Whiskey Barrels-<u>Clown
Shoes Beer</u>, Ipswich MA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Tangerine
Quad” </b>Belgian-style
Quadrupel Ale w/tangerine peel aged in Bourbon Barrels-<u>Avery
Brewing Co.</u>, Boulder,
CO</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Nasty
Woman”</b> Tequila Barrel Tripel
Ale – <u>Lickinghole
Creek</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Minute
Man”</b> IPA – <u>Three
Notch'd Brewing Co.</u>,
Charlottesville, VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Marshal
Zhukov's”</b> vanilla hazelnut
Imperial stout- <u>Cigar
City Brewing</u>, Tampa FL</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Coffee
Stout</b>- <u>Schlafly
Brewery</u>, St. Louis MI</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Hop
commander IPA”</b> - <u>Captain
Lawrence Brewing Co.</u>,
Elmsford NY</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Pernicious”
IPA</b> – <u>Wicked
Weed Brewing</u>, Asheville
NC</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
“<b>Enjoy
By 04.20.17”</b> IPA – <u>Stone
Brewing</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Honey
Rosemary Hefeweizen</b> – <u>The
Farm </u>Brewery, Broad Run
VA</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Blueberry
Hefeweizen</b> – <u>The
Farm Brewery</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Red IPA</b>
– <u> The Farm Brewery</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Coffee
IPA</b> – <u>The
Farm Brewery</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Tangerine
IPA</b> – <u>The
Farm Brewery</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Mosaic
IPA</b> – <u>The
Farm Brewery</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Triple
Berry Blonde</b> – <u>The
Farm Brewery</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Prototype:
KA-1</b> – <u>Adroit
Theory</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Prototype:
KA-2</b> – <u>Adroit
Theory</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Prototype:
KA-3</b> - <u>Adroit
Theory</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>EBK
(warning shot) DIPA</b> – <u>Adroit
Theory</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>B/A/Y/S
Bourbon Barrel Chocolate Cherry</b>
stout – <u>Adroit
Theory</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><b>"War Cannibal"</b> Imperial milk stout aged in maple whisky barrels - <u>Adroit Theory</u>...</li>
<li><b>Mexican
Cake Imperial Biscotti Break</b>
ale w/coffee,cinnamon,almonds, cocoa nibs, vanilla & habanero
peppers – <u>Evil Twin
Brewing</u> / <u>Westbrook
Brewing Co.</u>, Mount
Pleasant SC<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Freak Of
Nature</b> DIPA – <u>Wicked
Weed</u>...</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Fresh
Roast</b> ale – <u>Rogue
Ales</u>...</div>
</li>
</ul>
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*update coming soon*
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sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-12074998160923253452018-01-01T10:46:00.000-05:002018-01-01T10:46:04.074-05:00Books Read: 2017<ul>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Black Panthers</u>
edited by Bryan Shih & Yohuru Williams, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Station Eleven</u>
by Emily St. John Mandel, 2014</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>From #BLACKLIVESMATTER To Black
Liberation</u> by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Killing Moon</u>
by N.K. Jemisin, 2012</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Freedom Is A Constant Struggle:
Ferguson, Palestine, And The Foundations Of A Movement</u>
by Angela Y. Davis, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon
To White America</u> by Michael
Eric Dyson, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness</u>
by Michelle Alexander, 2012</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Love Is Love</u>
edited by Marc Andreyko, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Universal Harvester</u>
by John Darnielle, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Paper Girls: Volume 2</u>,
by Brian Vaughn & Cliff Chiang, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Blood Of Emmett Till</u>
by Timothy B. Tyson, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>We Gon' Be Alright</u>
by Jeff Chang, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Iscariot</u>
by S.M. Vidaurri, 2015</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Giant Days: Vol. 1</u>,
by John Allison & Lisa Treiman, 2015</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Are Prisons Obsolete?</u>
By Angela Y. Davis, 2003</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>A Gate At The Stairs</u>
by Lorrie Moore, 2009</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Phonogram Vol. 3 :The
Immaterial Girl</u> by Kieron
Gillen, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Adulthood Is A Myth: Sarah's
Scribbles Vol. 1</u> by Sarah
Andersen, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Sisters Are Alright:
Changing The Broken Narrative Of Black Women In America</u>
by Tamara Winfrey Harris, 2015</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Invisible Man, Got The Whole
World Watching</u> by Mychal
Denzel Smith, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Negroland: A Memoir</u>
by Margo Jefferson, 2015</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Parable Of The Sower</u>
by Octavia Butler,
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Leonard: My Fifty-Year
Friendship With A Remarkable Man</u>
by William Shatner w/David Fisher, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Drift: The Unmooring Of
American Military Power</u> by
Rachel Maddow, 2012 **re-read**</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Revolutionary Women: A Book Of
Stencils</u> by the Queen of the
Neighborhood Collective, 2010</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Nightwood</u>
by Djuna Barnes, 1937</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Norse Mythology</u>
by Neil Gaiman, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Kindred: A Graphic Novel
Adaptation</u> by Damian Duffy &
John Jennings, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Slam! : Issue #1</u>
by Pamela Ribbon</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Slam!: Issue #2</u>
by P. Ribbon</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Slam!: Issue #3</u>
by Ribbon</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Giant Days: Vol. 2</u>
by Allison, Tremain & Max Sarin, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Giant Days: Vol. 3</u>
by Allison & Sarin, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Saga: Vol. 7</u>
by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Lumberjanes, Vol. 5: Band
Together</u> by Noelle
Stevenson, Shannon Watters, Carolyn Nowak, Grace Ellis & Brooke
A. Allen, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The
Whisperer War</u> by Robert
kirkman, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Reconstruction: America's
Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877</u>
by Eric Foner, 1988/2014</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Book Of Phoenix</u>
by Nnedi Okorafor, 2015</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Lagoon</u>
by Nnedi Okorafor, 2014</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Speed Enforced By Aircraft</u>
by Richard Peabody, 2012</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Blue Suburban Skies</u>
by Richard Peabody, 2012</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Binti</u>
by Nnedi Okorafor, 2015</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Binti: Home</u>
by Nnedi Okorafor, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Bitch Planet, Book Two:
President Bitch</u> by Kelly Sue
DeConnick & Valentine De Landro, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Dragonbone Chair</u>
by Tad Williams, 1989 (re-read)</div>
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<u>Stone Of Farewell</u>
by Tad Williams, 1990 (re-read)</div>
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<u>To Green Angel Tower</u>
by Tad Williams, 1993 (re-read)</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Heart Of What Was Lost</u>
by Tad Williams, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Witchwood Crown</u>
by Tad Williams, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Radium Girls: The Dark
Story of America's Shining Women</u>
by Kate Moore, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Pushout: The Criminalization of
Black Girls In Schools</u> by
Monique W. Morris, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Wet Moon 2: Unseen Feet</u>
by Sophie Campbell, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Firebrand and the First
Lady: Portrait of a Friendship</u>
by Patricia Bell-Scott, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Ruins.</u>
by Peter Kuper, 2015</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Raven Rock</u>
by Garrett M. Graff, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Fifth Season</u>
by N. K. Jemisin, 2015</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Obelisk Gate</u>
by N. K. Jemisin, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Killers Of The Flower Moon: The
Osage Murders & the Birth Of The FBI</u>
by David Grann, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Windup Girl</u>
by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Wicked + The Divine, Vol.
4: Rising Action</u> by Kieron
Gillen, Jamie McKelvie & Matthew Wilson, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Wicked + The Divine, Vol.
5: Imperial Phase Part 1</u> by
Gillen, McKelvie & Wilson, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Stone Sky</u>
by N.K. Jemisin, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>At Mama's Knee: Mothers And
Race In Black & White</u> by
April Ryan, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Ministry Of Utmost
Happiness</u> by Arundhati Roy,
2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Phonogram, Vol. 2: The Singles
Club</u> by Gillen &
McKelvie, 2013</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Giant Days, Vol. 4</u>
by Allison & Sarin, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Giant Days, Vol. 5</u>
by Allison & Sarin, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Queen & Country, Vol. 1:
Operation Broken Ground</u> by
Greg Ruka & Steve Rolston, 2002</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Paper Girls, Vol. 3</u>
by Vaughan & Chiang, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Lumberjanes, Vol. 6: Sink Or
Swim</u> by Shannon Watters, Kat
Leyh & Carey Pietsch, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Descender, Vol. 3:
Singularities</u> by Lemire &
Nguyen, 2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Descender, Vol. 4: Orbital
Mechanics</u> by Lemire &
Nguyen, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood</u>
by Marjorie M. Liu & Sana Takeda, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Noumenon</u>
by Marina J. Lostetter, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Walking Dead, Vol. 28: A
Certain Doom</u> by Kirkman,
2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Vol.
1: My Father Bleeds History</u>
by Art Spiegelman, 1986</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Vol.
2: And Then my Troubles Began</u>,
by Spiegelman, 1992</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian
Woman In Guatemala</u> by
Rigoberta Menchu, edited by Elizabeth Burgos-Debray, 1984
</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>From Here To Eternity:
Traveling The World To Find The Good Death</u>
by Caitlin Doughty, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Sourdough</u>
by Robin Sloan, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: &
Other Lessons From The Crematory</u>
by Caitlin Doughty, 2014</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Imprisoning Communities: How
Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse</u>
by Todd R. Clear, 2007</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Shaler's Fish</u>
by Helen Macdonald, 1997</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>We Were Eight Years In Power:
An American Tragedy</u> by
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>We Should All Be Feminists</u>
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2012</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Reckless Daughter: A Portrait
Of Joni Mitchell</u> by David
Yaffee, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Akata Witch</u>
by Nnedi Okorafor, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>My Favorite Thing Is Monsters:
Book One</u> by Emil Ferris,
2016</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt
What Women Say About Their Lives</u>
by Leigh Gilmore, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>American Fire: Love, Arson, And
Life In A Vanishing Land</u> by
Monica Hesse, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Exit West</u>
by Mohsin Hamid, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Strange Weather</u>
by Joe Hill, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Citizen: An American Lyric</u>
by Claudia Rankine, 2014</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>I Can't Breathe: A Killing On
Bay Street</u> by Matt Taibbi,
2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Lumberjanes, Vol. 7: A Bird's
Eye View</u> by Watters, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Underground Girls Of Kabul</u>
by Jenny Nordberg, 2014</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>Bingo Love</u>
by Tee Franklin & Jen St-Onge, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Doomsday Machine:
Confessions Of A Nuclear War Planner</u>
by Daniel Ellsberg, 2017</div>
</li>
<li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u>The Inner Life Of Animals</u>
by Peter Wohlleben, 2017</div>
</li>
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sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-61590373388126890882017-10-29T15:00:00.000-04:002017-11-02T13:04:07.986-04:00poemmine is a visual poem with evergreen raindrops<br />
on glass<br />
and<br />
abandoned bicycles in<br />
the woodssandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-85498072849796068162017-10-22T16:00:00.000-04:002017-11-02T13:02:15.886-04:00poembrief moments spent wondering the sound<br />
dried leaves moving across asphalt/as wind<br />
caresses my face and<br />
hair/ dancessandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-9019889956070234712017-10-17T16:00:00.000-04:002017-11-02T12:59:37.526-04:00Poemeven in the bright blue<br />
i search for Moon sliver<br />
setting Sickle<br />
(and think of cosmic kilonova<br />
birthday<br />
BOOM)sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-90553208173886141692017-08-03T16:30:00.000-04:002017-08-25T15:28:35.694-04:00poemWalk with cloud mind and crow calling blue skies<br />
give ground, but forward<br />
passing aromas of lives lived<br />
seeking, yes - but being nowsandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-66641046370744126812017-07-20T19:52:00.000-04:002018-02-22T19:52:32.965-05:00poemmy dreams from the past<br />
lie scattered on the floor<br />
subconscious debrissandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-79152540792482123082017-07-15T13:44:00.001-04:002017-07-15T13:44:31.295-04:00poemvulture shadow moves<br />
diagonally<br />
as i stride<br />
North,<br />
milkweed pods ripening<br />
in my reveriessandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-24413718215679961912017-01-30T16:13:00.000-05:002017-01-30T16:13:32.785-05:00Dream<i>i go to Kay's house to wait for them to come home...i am in my jammies & robe...i go in the bathroom and notice that i am having trouble seeing, it's as if a hand were over my eyes...i look in the mirror and see that my face is all swollen around the eyes, and very red...i grow concerned and try to rinse my eyes with cold water, which does feel good, but the swelling does not ease and actually gets worse...i think that i should go home, but how could i drive when i cannot fully see?</i>sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-69241369916480153632017-01-22T14:49:00.001-05:002017-01-22T14:49:53.712-05:00dream<i>my friend has driven down the snowy driveway, so now i will attempt it in my van. i call Rhiannon to me, and she runs and jumps aboard. navigate some tight turns, and then here we go! get stuck immediately...talking with a friend, and then decide to try again as the snow seems to be melting somewhat. and down the driveway to the road we go.</i>sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9633875.post-70500058918874832942017-01-17T09:30:00.000-05:002017-01-18T02:27:21.713-05:00dream<i>a co-worker gives me a message that a customer wrote on a reusable shopping bag. it intrigues and amuses me. i walk down the sidewalk of the shop-lined street thinking that i might see him, and converse. as i walk, i think that i should not seem to be looking for something, so as to not draw the wrong type of attention, i am actually trying to keep a low profile. i am carrying two plastic bags with something in them, and another bag/backpack...it has become dusk, and the Moon is beautiful in the sky, with clouds passing by. a woman passes by me and speaks a friendly salutation. she pays me a compliment and smiles broadly-she has an instrument/guitar slung across her shoulder. i call out a reply - thinking about how when i get to the bottom of the hill, i will turn around and walk back...just then i hear a call-out, and see a friend of mine emerge from a wooded path off to me left on the other side of the road...we meet, and talk, she asks me what's up, and expresses surprise at seeing me out & about at this time, since i am so often at work at this time...[as i am getting ready to reply, i awaken]</i>sandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02016963004395743586noreply@blogger.com0