Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“There will be ease, soft breathing, and your favorite foods, a warm animal crawling into bed to sleep with you.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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“Everything on stage was set ablaze because all I had to be was the fire in me.”
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“I simmered rosemary and drank its tea, grew my hair thick as a plank, spoke poems till my throat blistered and waned and still could not curse colonizers enough to undo their work.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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“The hollow auditorium of my chest swoons with echoes of a heartbeat, but I am a careless tourist here.”
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“I have permission to be uncivil, ugly. To shatter ceramics to get my point across when no one will listen.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“Teach me to be a person without a nation, on the other side of enslavement. I will write to you always.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“I don’t want a Devil who smiles in my face. Give me a devil proud of his deeds.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown , performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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“Love had terrible rhythm on the dance floor, but made sure we never missed a slow song.”
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“Teach me to be a person without a nation, on the other side of enslavement. I will write to you always.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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Performing at AWP
“I think I have always deserved this. A sound. A happy sound, a song I can live inside of safely, and not question the intent of what is being sung to me.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Ariana Brown, performing at AWP in San Antonio, TX
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