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Father's Day for Gay Boys (by Dan Vera)

Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Slam

I will tell you why she rarely ventured from her house. It happened like this: One day she took the train to Boston, made her way to the darkened room, put her name down in cursive script and waited her turn. When they read her name aloud she made her way to the stage straightened the papers in her hands — pages and envelopes, the backs of grocery bills, she closed her eyes for a minute, took a breath, and began. From her mouth perfect words exploded, intact formulas of light and darkness. She dared to rhyme with words like cochineal and described the skies like diadem. Obscurely worded incantations filled the room with an alchemy that made the very molecules quake. The solitary words she handled in her upstairs room with keen precision came rumbling out to make the electric lights flicker. 40 members of the audience were treated for hypertension. 20 year old dark haired beauties found their heads had turned a Moses White. Her second poem erased the memory of every cellphone in the nightclub, and by the fourth line of the sixth verse the grandmother in the upstairs apartment had been cured of her rheumatism. The papers reported the power outages. The area hospitals taxed their emergency generators and sirens were heard to wail through the night. Quietly she made her way to the exit, walked to the terminal and rode back to Amherst. She never left her room again and never read such syllables aloud. 

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NEW Episode of the Solidarity Podcast - Meet NEW Agents & Public Sector Update

In this episode of the Solidarity Podcast we meet two of the newest members of the Teamsters Local 769 staff. Andy Madtes and Dan Vera take a few minutes to talk a little about their experience in the labor movement and their journey to Local 769.

Then we sit down with Andy Madtes to talk Public Sector. Andy gives a full run down on the City of Fort Lauderdale as well as a status update on…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Imaniman: Anzaldua Poetic Anthology

Poets Reflect on Transformative & Transgressive Borders Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Work* is a forthcoming anthology of essays, poetry and hybrids of the two.

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2016

It is the intention of editors Ire'ne Lara Silva and Dan Vera, and Aunt Lute Books, to have a final publication by November 2016 in time to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the birthday of groundbreaking poet, scholar and theorist Gloria Anzaldúa.