By Keli Stewart (Because all art is connected and I left their performance as a possessed woman with a desire to write more of us. Thank you Tidal Basin Review for allowing me to blog. I’ve enjoyed it fully.) The Ladies Ring Shout (LRS), a Honey Pot Performance, exists as a performative mining of [...]
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The Ladies Ring Shout (LRS)
Posted in keli stewart on August 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Keeping Hands Busy and Making Do/Due: Creativity and Motherhood
Posted in keli stewart on August 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
By Keli Stewart Wednesday is Family Day, ½ off everything. We are in the thrift-store again, walking between aisles of eclectic clothes and unwanted objects. I think of plans, strategies, lists, poem titles, full stories down these rows with baby in tow, and a nine-year old who touches everything. I let him. This [...]
living with the soot
Posted in keli stewart on August 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
By Keli Stewart everyday i drive past my childhood home, a 6 unit brick building i lived in as the landlord’s daughter for over eighteen years. this is the home my twenty-ish young parents brought me to plant roots. i see from the main street its yellow charred brick and plywood boards nailed to [...]
gettin’ in the rope
Posted in keli stewart, tagged childhood, doubledutch, girlhood, jumping, jumprope, turn on August 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
By Keli Stewart i jumped double dutch this weekend, after an impromptu facebook call for grown women jumpers. we put on our “white girls” and good bras, flexing within a dollar store double rope. it wasn’t easy, relearning a rhythm and synchronization from fifteen to twenty years ago. surely the way a grown woman’s [...]
Welcome TBR August Blogger, Keli Stewart!
Posted in keli stewart on July 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Keli Stewart’s stories, plays and poems have appeared and are forthcoming in Quiddity, Meridians, Naugatuck River Review, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, Letters to Fathers from Daughters, Torch Poetry, Hip Mama, On Becoming, Muzzle Magazine, Calyx, Reverie: Midwest African American Literature and Spaces Between Us. Keli has received artist fellowships from [...]
