Poetry

“Inside of my Mind, on Top of My Thoughts” and “There’s a Natural Mystic Blowing Through the Air”

Inside of my Mind, on Top of My Thoughts My performance was a simulation of…

Notes from Tzania

[Both nights, Mankwe Ndosi closed “Girls in Their Bedrooms” with live vocal improvisation, poetry reading…

Inside Out

To miss you is an extraction is not finding what I think I see is…

Tal’-s-go Gal’-quo-gi Di-del’-qua-s-do-di Tsa-la-gi Di-go-whe-li / Beginning Cherokee

I-gv-yi-i Tsa-la-gi Go-whe-lv-i: A-sgo-hni-ho-‘i / First Cherokee Lesson: Mourning Find a flint blade Use your teeth…

Aster(ix) Picks: Our Favorite Poetry 2014

Aster(ix) asked four poets we love to choose their favorite poetry books just in time…

Writing Home

1 I’ve been trying to write since nine, counting hours in passing cups of steam.…

the unshakeable black feminist anthem 
& 
on capacity building

the unshakeable black feminist anthem for post-earthquake sisters in Haiti and the Dominican Republic  …

Abuelas

*Dowoti was not at the Black Feminist Retreat. However, she is an elder – an…

The Naming of Things

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Aster(ix)’s very own, Adriana E. Ramirez, recently gave a talk for TEDxHouston. Here you…