Author Archives: Susan L Daniels

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?

the jazz of my words

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I want to roll with this the jazz of my words popping lightly like finger snaps or high heels on concrete tapping that beat that makes me want to sway with spoken word let strength and snap pour from my mouth … Continue reading →

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small things set to scale

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this composition of ours the singing subatomic resonance the empty places in bodies, cells, atoms, space a design, beautiful and subtle as lace, which is as much made of its lack of substance as its substance I would speak to … Continue reading →

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rain

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this  image translated to voice chained to what these limited eyes know, the universe scaled to a drop of water on a leaf in a summer storm so many drops to notice why this one balanced on the tip of … Continue reading →

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the risk

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

early fireflies drift easy through air spiced by bloomed coriander slow-falling constellations whose coded sequences of seduction dazzle me, too and like those males following that irresistible female flicker either to love or its hungry impostor I want to follow that light … Continue reading →

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if I am intimate with

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

If I am intimate with the movements of the earth and do not share her secrets it is because I leap up from her flesh suddenly, a quake-spawned mountain spewing ash and steam or a weed, growing overnight wild and … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Reflections:
By Noel Ihebuzor Life as lived unity Life lives, breathes and shimmers as one straddling frames and fields defying puny encapsulation and attempts to frame it in packets and pockets of disparate silos by all knowing…

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Posted on June 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on the poet's billow:
Tina Chang, Brooklyn’s new poet laureate, breaks down her creative process. Watch it here at the New York Times Website.

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