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Cabey’s debut poetry collection, Get Funky, Get Swoll, out now, began to take form amid this tumult, its earliest entries growing from the fractures in these relationships and exploring the various ways the writer said he had been “brainwashed to believe that white was pure and beautiful and holy and great.”

“And as I began to study and read about racism, and I began to talk to the enclaves I was friends with, I lost a lot of relationships, and so I felt stranded in the world,” said Cabey, who will celebrate the release of Get Funky, Get Swoll in conversation with Marcus Jackson at Prologue Bookshop on Friday, May 8. “And I had to begin to reorder my mind in order to survive that reality. … And the book took shape out of me wanting to navigate and reconcile these experiences so that I wouldn’t continue down the rabbit hole of self-hate.”

Akhim Yuseff Cabey unpacks the human collateral of racism in ‘Get Funky, Get Swoll’ – Matter News The Columbus poet will celebrate the release of his debut collection in conversation with Marcus Jackson at Prologue Bookshop on Friday, May 8.

“And it’s not that we don’t want a professional women’s soccer team here, because we do. But we think it was rushed, and we think it was done in a community that is consistently underserved, underrepresented, and typically not heard,” said Crayton, who plans to join others at Friday's rally in collecting signatures for a ballot initiative aimed at saving McCoy Park. “If nothing else, you’re going to hear us. You’re going to hear that we are angry. And we’re going to show up in the votes for mayor, for our District 7 representation, for our District 6 representation. So, if we can’t do something directly about McCoy Park, we’re absolutely going to do something when it comes time to change the powers that be at City Hall.”

‘We have no place else to go. And now we have to push back.’ – Matter News In the wake of a City Council vote clearing the way for the bulk of McCoy Park to be handed over as the training facility for a new NWSL expansion team, local residents are staging a ‘Hands Off Our Park’ rally at the Southwest Side park beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 1.