Sitting in Silence

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Sitting in Silence
Sitting in Silence
Your Deathly Habits.

Your Deathly Habits.

What has art done to you?

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Apr 25, 2023
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“My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.” – Countee Cullen

I write today from the Word of South festival in Tallahassee, Florida. My performance was with Grammy winning guitarist Larry Mitchell and his band. It was my first time improvising spoken word with professional musicians and some moments felt posit…

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