Friend and tribe kin Ms. Tanya B has initiated a 30 day “art challenge.” The idea is to create, experience or participate in some sort of artistic/creative endeavor everyday for 30 days, with a celebration showcase of our experiments in January. To kick it off, I’m reviving this old dusty blog!
I also sought inspiration from Audrey Lorde’s “Poetry is not a Luxury.” In fact, I’ve often felt that it is. Even after surviving teenagehood through reading and writing poems, I’ve often struggled with feeling like my own poetry was a self-indulgence. Lorde breaks it down real quick in the first lines of her essay when she identifies poetry as illumination: “The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives…. For it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are- until the poem- nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.”
I’m inspired to expand and color that light through which I give birth to my own growth through poetry, dance, collage, and other expressions.
