Let it be a tale

to tell and always stick by the truth, because why be an artist if you aren't a truth teller

The weekly broadcast: Footnotes & Headlines, is the connective tissue and on going webbing of my work, is the forecast, the check in, the dispatch, the pulse, the ritual of coming together every week, is grief bubbling big big, is tired words, is an invitation and demand

is named after a book published by Corita Kent, Footnotes & Headlines in 1967, which is a book full of prayers, demands, notations, pages full of brightly colored words bringing us in close, is writing, is spell making

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Footnotes & Headlines is letters becoming poems becoming banners becoming kites.

Image Description: A kite shaped piece of paper is attached to a long wooden dowel. On the kite, it reads “POET”. Wrapped around the wooden dowel is a long kite tail. Clear blue sky, a tree branch and the tops of buildings are behind the kite protest sign.

Let it be a tale, that the resistance work continues, that thousands of folks fighting against zionism, colonialism, white supremacy, etc around this globe continue to fight! WE WILL NOT BE STOPPED! We continue to think of new ways to disrupt business as usual. Continue to invite folks into these conversations!!!

Let it be a damn tale that truth telling is our material, our food, our live long commitment.

& let that tale be told through our poems, work, songs, gestures, teaching, lesson plans, murals, paintings, performances, photographs, novels