Elizabeth Spenst

THIS IS NOT AN OP-ED.

Posted on November 7, 2015October 1, 2022 by Elizabeth Spenst

by Elizabeth Spenst “I’d tell you what I don’t have time for but I don’t have time.” – Angel Nafis, “Gravity” Last year, I wrote an essay for an English class about the health effects of racism on the Black body, from Johny Henryism to microagressions to the racial empathy gap. I supported everything I…

The Dead Shall be Raised

Posted on April 3, 2015October 2, 2016 by Elizabeth Spenst

I am the American heartbreak – The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe – The great mistake That Jamestown made Long ago. –Langston Hughes “You think it’s the hurricane? I think a dead man trying to tell a tale.” Curtis T., a homeless man, was being interviewed by the New Haven Independent about an…