J.B. Stone – FEMININE COLLECTIVE

Goddess of the Sun

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 J.B. Stone

After Crystal Williams’ “The Voice of God,” For Aretha Franklin her voice was the soundtrack to after-school pick-me-ups from the trauma of every reluctant schoolyard memento uplifting auras that filled the room accompanying my mother’s cooking as she shuffled from the kitchen to the dining room, switching up her vinyl Read more

For the Jukebox that Won’t Stop Playing the National Anthem

February 17, 2019March 6, 2019 J.B. Stone

the sultry ode composed of smashed teeth, blood stained glass, hammer-fist dents, ready to turn public spaces into choral asylums, turn town squares into scorched earth & blast the blistering notes of nationalism, numbing the ear drums in the worst of ways, we howl like drunk men in wolves clothing, Read more