Nadia Daniels-Moehle
The days are being swallowed by night. In this dark, everything is quiet and I can feel a shifting, squirming anticipation like a theater full of people before the curtain goes up, before the projector turns on. William Shakespeare quipped that “a great cause of the night is lack of the sun” and just as…
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As a child, my house was full of maps–on the walls, tucked into folders, printed onto pillows. I would run my little fingers over them, connecting place to place, but I always preferred to navigate by imagination. I would begin with the empty space just behind my eyelids. My imagination fleshed out the world around…
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“A year seems like a lot of time now at this end—it isn’t.” Audre Lorde “Letter to Pat Parker, December 6, 1985” Sitting in a warm room lined with books, I stare through the window and into the yellow forest, into a year that is just as murky as my tangled-up thoughts. I don’t know…
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A Crusade of Children: Art and a Poem Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five Ink on paper Submitting to The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library’s (KVML) literary journal “So It Goes” has become a tradition: when I was sixteen, I received my first writing rejection from them, and it inspired me to keep writing and submitting. …
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Time Traveling Box and the Moonpit: Inspired by a Generous and Kind Woman and Audre Lorde’s poem “The Black Unicorn” India ink and watercolor on paper At the rummage sale that day, the kind and generous woman would never have known that she gave me the tools to time travel. Audre Lorde’s poem “The Black…
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Wild Peace: Inspired by Wendell Berry’s poem “The Peace of Wild Things” India ink on paper “The Peace of Wild Things” is a point of stillness in this fast world. The words culminate to remind us that we are a part of Nature, and through our wilderness, we might find peace. You can listen to…
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