Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017 Total Eclipse: March 7, 1970 Richard Cambridge   The moon’s shadow struck La Pinta, the northernmost island of the Galápagos Archipelago that straddled the hemispheres six hundred miles west of Ecuador. A giant saddleback tortoise stretched its long, leathery […]

Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017

Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017

Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017

Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017

Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017

Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017   Chinook/Sockeye  August to September (October) Aflame with the crimson color of marriage, the salmon Seek their lovers. For the salmon, the act Spinning out life Is an act of death For the salmon Life lives in death. The salmon […]

Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017   Split the Root Lauren Camp   I was deep in the raw rush of marching while gluttony formed its own equator. My sister has a tradition of not speaking politics, which isn’t stoicism but occupation with the best […]

Recorded at the annual Black Earth Institute gathering: Art and Literature Lab, Madison; Oct 7th, 2017   Requiem Melissa Tuckey   Unable to sleep, the blankets wrapped in waves, waves as tall as dreams, the dream world trying to make sense of the waking— strange dream of flooded rivers, entire cities underwater. Look how the […]