9TH ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 28 :: REST :: Re:Cover / Re:View
As part of our decision to go forward with the Ninth Annual Poetry Month celebration here at the OS, I felt it was vitally important to hold space for not a begrudged allowance for “incompleteness” but rather a celebratory invitation, a full and beloved permission for rest as not a weakness or fault but rather an active, necessary, perfect choice, as or more valid than expected labor or an expected timeline. This is an embodied rest, an active space of holding those whose bodies opted for their own needs in the place of performance, this time around. It will happen a few times throughout this year’s series, and the contributors represented in these rests will remain anonymous. You can read our whole statement about how we are approaching this year’s series here.
For each of these days, however, this text will appear, as will an invitation chosen either by myself or a curator to return to a previous entry in the 240 previous pieces in this series. — Elæ, OS Creative Director & Founder
From this week’s curator:
While honoring the rest as an intentional act of holding space for those who need it & as active reminder of the care we all need today, I’d also like to offer the idea of a rest in music as moment for a different instrument to sing. Lay down the voice today, for a moment — but let the drums, the clarinet, the gaida, the dulcimer, the upright bass & piano to sing.
With all warmth,
Constantine
For the re:covery of this past entry, I offer this, from April 8, 2019 (NAPOMO Year 8)
