Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing..

—Lucille Clifton

The OctoGenarian Tour 24-25—September & November, Fort Wayne IN; March, Ithaca NY; April Boston, Framingham MA, & Cleveland OH; May Comer, GA, & Washington DC; June, Fort Wayne IN; July, the Pacific Northwest—Olympia, Tacoma, Bellingham.

Third Space Reading Room & Action Lab is the place to gather in Glenville. The Reading Room is the place to get your head right, to find the reading material needed to identify & articulate your Self & life with historical clarity.

The Action Lab was created to disrupt the cycle of divestment & displacement that gentrifies People of Afrikan Descent out of their communities. Black-owned, Third Space Action Lab is a grassroots research, strategy, & design cooperative dedicated to prototyping creative place-based solutions to actualize racial equity. TSAL is a grassroots laboratory for change agents.

During this visit to Third Space, a landscape architectural firm was there conducting a community listening session. They presented the plans for the regentrification of 105th Street, which was part of the University Circle revitalization. In the few minutes I had to poet, I addressed the exercise the community had just gone through with the architects as the agents of the Cleveland Clinic developers. Third Space is one of the community businesses working to hold University Circle accountable to its historic residents.