Organic Activist - A Poem

By: Will Copeland
We’re growing our organic activists
No Propaganda and No preservatives
We’re growing with the weeds and cabbages
Taking out the Neo-conservatives

Mind of Tha Musician

By: Timothy A Peoples Jr.
Why do I play when it hurts me so badly to perform?
I imagine this dark room filled with an audience of distinguished gentlemen,
In collard shirts and middle aged wives fantasizing about the color,
Of which I represent while moving my fingers across keys,
Designing a brilliant melody, her mind sets on internal secretion,
Rather [...]

Performing Activism in Detroit

By: Julie Rosier
I am seeking to develop a performance activism project, where a group of people will tell their own stories on stage through a collage performance. This collective storytelling extravaganza will portray under-told personal stories about the intersections of identity, exploring relationships between categories such as class, race, gender, sexuality and the place [...]

…On Growing Green Beans

By: Barbara Stachowski
[...On Growing Green Beans was featured on Detroit Today, a public radio show on WDET.]
Gardens can teach us many wonderful things. How do I know? My grandfather taught me so!
I grew up in a wonderfully extended Polish Catholic family in the Detroit suburb of Warren. My father recently reflected how, as a little [...]

Yes, We Can - A Poem

Back in February, Detroit City of Hope held two events called MLK’s Words, Our Conversations. Those that gathered explored how Martin Luther King’s legacy should impact our current work in Detroit. During the event, we divided into small groups and used activities to engage certain themes. Those of us in the [...]

I Dream of a Detroit

On February 16 LAMP hosted it’s first lampshop since 2006. they invited youth to do two different workshops facilitated by two different artist/activists of Detroit, Sterling toles a beat making one, and Phoenix a writing one. this is one of the poems that came out of it.
I dream of a Detroit
where walking down [...]

Urgently Standing @ the DIA

This past Friday as part of the Detroit Institute of Art’s Friday Night Live! Series (Fridays, 6:00-10:00pm, free for Detroit residents) the museum presented: An Evening with Jessica Care Moore and Aku Kadogo. The program described the performance as, “Part theater, poetry slam and dance hall, the performances of these women from different generations pay [...]