In an effort to give kids a chance to play basketball during their schools' off-season, BJ Robertson created a multifaceted program that includes camps, clinics,.
Soul by Devyn Thompson, Lulu Publishing, 110 pages. $16. The 19-year-old woman whose poetry I ve been reading alternately rages with political protest and coos with gender-bending sensuality and self-discovery. On the first page of her book, titled simply
Soul, Devyn Thompson is photographed in black and white and is shockingly posed to look like she s hanging herself. On page 21, she wears a slinky red dress and looks over her shoulder; the continent of Africa is tattooed on her back. The page delivers one word: Desire. Along with the daring chameleon depicted in Jeron Hagler s photographs, I see my favorite kind of artist. Thompson is an unpretentious art maverick with a lot of nerve and earned self-reliance. In 2020, while many of us hunkered down with lots to grieve over, she took her own grief, wrote a book and published it herself.