Category: Poetry Pause
Esto es para los perturbadores
Esto es para quienes les preocupa que los llamen arrogantes o ignorantes o rebeldes, pero aun así continúan.
Keep going in (Part IV)
“How do we help people understand: you don’t have to cling, you don’t have to dominate, you don’t have to hide, you don’t have to confine yourself.” PART IV of interview with Onyango Otieno
Don’t stop believing (Part III)
“They made life a business. I didn’t want to stay in the market. I wanted to stay in a community.” PART III of interview with Onyango Otieno
So that we can see one another (Part II)
“We deserve equal time…We deserve equal measure of resources – just because we are here.” PART II of interview with Onyango Otieno
How to relate (Part I)
“I really love it when people connect to each other. Because it encompasses the idea that we need one another to make life work. We need one another.” PART I of interview with Onyango Otieno
Fire and light
A poem about a reality not often discussed: the racial tensions of being part of global feminist movements and the international development space.
Swimming in the Sea of Conundrum
Initial reflections (and a poem) from the 2019 #ShiftThePower Symposium and how to continue the conversations going forward.
Roots, roots, roots
A sort-of review of “Rest in My Shade: A Poem About Roots,” the forthcoming book by Nora Lester Murad and Danna Masad.
A pause (for when it all seems too much)
A mantra for do-gooders to balance out a sense of overwhelm.
What poems and do-gooders have in common
Poems and do-gooders might share more than you think.
(Plus a small collection of poems in honor of National Poetry Month in the U.S.)
Friday’s Poetic Pause: The Box, by Marie-Rose Romain Murphy
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “The Box” by Marie-Rose Romain Murphy
If ever there was a time… (Part 2)
“If there was ever a time
to pay attention to the non-shock of
the people of color around you
this is it.”
A poem by Bianca Vazquez