Architecture Sentences
One Long Black Sentence is book of sentences you can't understand because they are actually architecture drawings. This book of Renee Gladman's drawings --...
Cut & Paste
Walk With Me, 2020 Collage may be one of the most underpoliticized aesthetic approaches. This might be the case for the way people often associate it with...
From Russia with Buzz
There is a mysterious Russian shortwave radio signal that broadcasts from a swampland on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. The signal frequency is 4625 kHz,...
Drums & Baldwin
Miini-Giizis was a Native event that took place two days ago in Campus Martius, downtown Detroit. You might think of it as the real independence celebration....
Whiteness in Threes
A new mural in Milwaukee. Photo by LD. I've been letting this dagger of a piece by father Kenneth Tanner sink in. It begins reflecting on four Black women...
Jackson, Akron, & Ferguson
Our Lady of Ferguson by Mark Doox, whose art might deserve a longer tour in a future edition. Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black...
Conspiracies & Designs
Photo by Candice Seplow The Atlantic ran an incredible series recently called "Shadowland" on conspiracy thinking in the United States. What a time for this...
Two Lies and a Coup
On November 13th, 1898, a Presbyterian minister in Wilmington, North Carolina addressed his congregation on what was no typical Sunday morning. Three days...
John Brown Abolition Art
White abolitionist John Brown was born 120 years ago yesterday. His was a life of many failures: fur trader, business man, and -- most notoriously -- leader...
Fun with Sound
The New York Public Library has an album of soundscapes for everyone missing the city. Each track uses a combination of sounds to create familiar, ambient...
Myths & Proper Covers
Reykjavík, 2017. Here's a myth I believed until recently: the long summer break of K-12 schools is a carryover from farming cycles that needed youth workers...
Fire & Wire
Oakland University's golden grizzly, masked for the pandemic. Or is it a muzzle? I couldn't possibly be more excited about Fire in Little Africa: A...
Soul Never Dies
The House of Soul at the Detroit Heidelberg Project was destroyed by arson in 2013. This fire was one of 12 over a two year period -- all arson -- that, the...
New Poems, Old Poems, and a Clip from 101 Years Ago
Sculpture and wall piece from the north end of Saginaw St., downtown Pontiac. Yesterday's Print shares old newspaper clippings that parallel current events....
Running & Runnin'
The shore of Lake Michigan, about a week ago. I mostly gave up running for swimming a few years ago. I read the aches and pains and knew a change was in...
Poems from the Bunker
Photo by Tim Mossholder The final lines from a poem by Dori Midnight about something we are all doing a lot of right about now - washing your hands: I hope...
Sonic Compositions & An Autograph
Here's how Blastmaster KRS-One autographs slipmats -- not mine, unfortunately, but a friend's: I teach a capstone course on language and composition. I...
The OG Village Voice Edition
I often riff that 1980s Village Voice writing is the scholarly roots of hip-hop studies. The paper's archives are full of gems. This is often the case...
Boxes Full of Soul
A new piece by Zach Curtis showed up downtown Pontiac. It's directly across from the piece I shared last week. So that makes a fresh dog looking at a group...
A Brutal Take and a Mother's Strength
Behind Alley Cat Cafe, Downtown Pontiac, MI. Here's a brutal take on non-profit organizations from "Social Service or Social Change?" by Paul Kivel. One...