Robert Rhodes, ‘Night map (1) so we can always find the way to one another.’ Acrylic, gouache and pencil on Arches paper.
Preface:
This series unfolded during the first week of July, 2015, when I posted “Call Me Down the Rain” on my Facebook page as a response to another round of attacks by Boko Haram in Jos and other locations in northern Nigeria. Poet j.lewis responded with a poem, and it became a conversation, with poet amu nnadi contacting me to add his poem “we fled jos” to the sequence. Poet and artist Robert Rhodes gave us permission to use one of his paintings as an accompaniment, and we are grateful to Creative Thresholds for bringing this conversation to wider audience.
–Laura M Kaminski, July 2015
Call Me Down the Rain
work-song honoring those attempting to return home to territory reclaimed from Boko Haram
I must dance a…
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It’s wonderful you all find a voice to use for those sad and poor events.
And it is great you get a place to showcase this.
I am always feeling so strange to realize how very little news of what’s happening in Nigeria is coming us, here. I imagine only how bad it must be in some other places of which we hear even less.
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Dhyan, thank you. We were most grateful to Creative Thresholds — she gave the whole issue over to call attention to this.
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(did I noticed some DH hidden causally there?)
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Some of the poems will be in Dance Here, yes. I’m hoping to have that one ready by the end of this year. Have you received a package from me in your mail yet?
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I didn’t know it’s the title name
Nope, not yet.
That would be too ambitiously quick.
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The other title is Considering Luminescence. Dance Here is a different, slower…and rather more painful project.
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