Marcus Hong
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Every week in our Sun-Walking Fellowship staff meetings, we engage in a practice of art-making together. Today, we took the text of Thomas Merton's experience at Fourth and Walnut, which inspired our name, and performed Redaction Poetry. I loved mine. The poem I created is in the replies.
April 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Every week in our Sun-Walking Fellowship staff meetings, we engage in a practice of art-making together. Today, we took the text of Thomas Merton's experience at Fourth and Walnut, which inspired our name, and performed Redaction Poetry. I loved mine. The poem I created is in the replies.
I've been on a James Weldon Johnson journey recently. The second stanza of his delight-filled poem "Prayer at Sunrise" warmed my soul this morning. [1/4]
February 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I've been on a James Weldon Johnson journey recently. The second stanza of his delight-filled poem "Prayer at Sunrise" warmed my soul this morning. [1/4]
From Toni Morrison's "Racism and Fascism"
inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
"Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas...." [1/7]
inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
"Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas...." [1/7]
Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship
In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.
inthesetimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
From Toni Morrison's "Racism and Fascism"
inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
"Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas...." [1/7]
inthesetimes.com/article/toni...
"Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas...." [1/7]
One of the most difficult, but necessary to read poems from Clint Smith III.
Finally, I'd like to post this poem by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social: When pople say "we've made it through worse before..."
"...we are not all left standing after the war has ended. Some of us have become ghosts by the time the dust has settled."
"...we are not all left standing after the war has ended. Some of us have become ghosts by the time the dust has settled."
January 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
One of the most difficult, but necessary to read poems from Clint Smith III.
Excerpts from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "A Time to Break Silence," www.americanrhetoric.com/.../mlkatime....
"...I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values..." [1/10]
"...I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values..." [1/10]
www.americanrhetoric.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Excerpts from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, "A Time to Break Silence," www.americanrhetoric.com/.../mlkatime....
"...I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values..." [1/10]
"...I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values..." [1/10]
Reposted by Marcus Hong
April 29, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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