Lolita Stewart-White’s black frag/ments is a breathtaking series of narrative-lyric poems about the fragmentation of the black body, family, and community facilitated by the historically racist US healthcare system. After her husband’s cancer diagnosis, Stewart-White finds herself haunted by the trauma Black Americans continue to face in medical settings. These poems, both brazen and tenderhearted, explore enduring love in the face of grief and hardship while drawing parallels to past injustices. Stewart-White expertly weaves ancestral and present voices together, resulting in an…mehr
Lolita Stewart-White’s black frag/ments is a breathtaking series of narrative-lyric poems about the fragmentation of the black body, family, and community facilitated by the historically racist US healthcare system. After her husband’s cancer diagnosis, Stewart-White finds herself haunted by the trauma Black Americans continue to face in medical settings. These poems, both brazen and tenderhearted, explore enduring love in the face of grief and hardship while drawing parallels to past injustices. Stewart-White expertly weaves ancestral and present voices together, resulting in an intergenerational archive that centers one family’s challenging journey in a broader context of how black people protest, repair, and revive.
Lolita Stewart-White is a poet, playwright, and filmmaker from Liberty City, Florida. She is a Pushcart nominee and winner of the Paris American Series Prize. Her poetry has been featured in Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, the Boston Review, and the African American Review. Her poem “Healing” was featured in the anthology This is the Honey, curated by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander. Stewart-White is an alumnus of Miami City Theatre’s Homegrown Program, a playwriting development program that nurtures emerging BIPOC playwrights. She is a Cave Canem Fellows Fund Project Grantee for her play-in-verse, Liberty City Vignettes currently in development. Stewart-White has received fellowships from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, the Miami Light Project, and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Her films have been exhibited at the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival, the Seattle Black Film Festival, and the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). She lives in Miami, FL.
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Prelude to Blue Burnt Orange Mountain After the Diagnosis Damn Damn Damn Good Times (Strange Fruit Episode, 1976) A Song for You Kind of Blue: Variation One Chorus of Ancestors FADE IN: Q & A African American Sentence EXHIBIT A – The Tuskegee Experiment The House that was my Husband’s Body Kind of Blue: Variation Two Dear Wife Reconstruction Way in the Middle of the Air fragment: (n.) Daughter’s Responses to a Counseling Session Dear Dad Text from a Friend Everything is a Black Girl Kind of Blue: Variation Three Heartache Ghazal Afro Beautiful Definition of Blue Oncology Elegy Chorus of Ancestors How to Shield a Dark Body Right On! Exhibit B: Billing Department Kind of Blue: Variation Four Healing Fugitivity The House That Was My Husband’s Body Instructions for Intimacy after your Partner’s Cancer Treatment Husband’s Instructions Dear Death fragment: (v.) Exhibit C: Henrietta Lacks Speaks AFib (or Revolution Redux) Call and Response Dear Husband Kind of Blue: Variation Five How to Cry without Tears Root of my Blues Chorus of Ancestors African American Sentence Emancipation Blues The House that was my Husband’s Body Fragmented: (adj.) Exhibit D: Dem Dark Bones And You Don’t Stop Prayer in A Minor Anointed Chorus of Ancestors Kind of Blue; Variation Six Revolutionary Fragments Black as Material, Mode and Movement Intensive Care Rebellion Self-portrait as Hoodie Sounder
Prelude to Blue Burnt Orange Mountain After the Diagnosis Damn Damn Damn Good Times (Strange Fruit Episode, 1976) A Song for You Kind of Blue: Variation One Chorus of Ancestors FADE IN: Q & A African American Sentence EXHIBIT A – The Tuskegee Experiment The House that was my Husband’s Body Kind of Blue: Variation Two Dear Wife Reconstruction Way in the Middle of the Air fragment: (n.) Daughter’s Responses to a Counseling Session Dear Dad Text from a Friend Everything is a Black Girl Kind of Blue: Variation Three Heartache Ghazal Afro Beautiful Definition of Blue Oncology Elegy Chorus of Ancestors How to Shield a Dark Body Right On! Exhibit B: Billing Department Kind of Blue: Variation Four Healing Fugitivity The House That Was My Husband’s Body Instructions for Intimacy after your Partner’s Cancer Treatment Husband’s Instructions Dear Death fragment: (v.) Exhibit C: Henrietta Lacks Speaks AFib (or Revolution Redux) Call and Response Dear Husband Kind of Blue: Variation Five How to Cry without Tears Root of my Blues Chorus of Ancestors African American Sentence Emancipation Blues The House that was my Husband’s Body Fragmented: (adj.) Exhibit D: Dem Dark Bones And You Don’t Stop Prayer in A Minor Anointed Chorus of Ancestors Kind of Blue; Variation Six Revolutionary Fragments Black as Material, Mode and Movement Intensive Care Rebellion Self-portrait as Hoodie Sounder
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