By Will Falk
early one day I was walking
down by Mission Beach
with the sky over San Diego harbor
and we saw a lot of strange things
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(A Poem) for Pu’eska
By Will Falk
Dakwish
that old cannibal is back
I heard he was dead
but ever since
the Granite Construction Company
came around Temecula
wanting to drill holes in Pu’eska
I’ve had my doubts
the way I heard the old stories
Dakwish wanted to eat everyone
he liked fat old ladies and little boys best
but he’d eat anyone
kill them
then pound them up with a pestle
crunching up bones
so they’d be easy to swallow… [Read more…]
We Had No Choice Other Than Be the Best (A Rhyme for the Dunbar Reunion)
By Ernie McCray
Tucson is a place where
several times a day
you hear somebody say:
“Damn, it’s hot!”
That’s a tradition that will never stop.
Because it is, indeed, hot,
very hot,
so hot that no matter
whether a person is religious or not,
when that sun drops
down behind the Tucson Mountains on, say,
a July day,
Christians are born right away
because everybody has to say:
“Thank you, Jesus!”
But the sun will be back the very next day
Don’t even try to pray it away…. [Read more…]
How to tell if what you’re reading or watching is still part of the JFK assassination cover-up.
By Frank Gormlie
We’re all fairly aware now that this month is the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination. President John F Kennedy was murdered on November 22, 1963 in Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
And boy, we’re being swamped with films, articles, videos and books about the assassination and the subsequent cover up. For example, both the History channel and National Geographic channel are throwing new films at us this month at almost a daily basis.
So, how can you tell if what you’re reading or watching is still part of the Kennedy murder cover-up?
Here’s three simple rules:
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The Chinese in the Dunbar/Spring of My Times
By Ernie McCray
My old stomping grounds,
the turf upon which I grew,
from 1938 to 1962
on the north side of Tucson,
is now a historic neighborhood.
Such a designation makes me feel good,
validated, appreciated
for just being.
The neighborhood is now called Dunbar/Spring
and I remember well
many of the things
that, over the years,
have given it its historical authenticity
as it was home
to so much black history.
My history. [Read more…]
Echoed Knock
By Sunny Rey
I too still wonder
about the rooms of my soul
Where do the doors lead
and how about those deserted roads too?
What are my private intentions?
What is it that fills spaces between cells? [Read more…]
Reflecting Upon the First Year of Desde la Logan
By Brent E. Beltrán
One year ago today, October 12, 2012, my first Desde la Logan column was published here at San Diego Free Press. To date I’ve written forty-nine pieces: forty-four Desde la Logan columns and five articles on Comic-Con. If I had more time I probably could’ve written fifty more.
Like all SDFP writers I do not get paid to write. I write because the stories that I want to share rarely, if ever, get covered by the mainstream press. And the community I live in and write about doesn’t get much positive media attention.
I’ve taken it upon myself to cover the stories and issues that don’t get covered. To unashamedly champion the places, people, issues and causes that are near and dear to my community and myself. [Read more…]
I Have Fallen in Love Again
By Sunny Rey
I have fallen again
again and again
in love
with this man
this man who I have met and re-met
in all lightings of the fluorescent-structured street sun
I have seen him glow under and outshine
only to quiet down in the evening
turning half his face away into a shadow [Read more…]
An Introduction to North Park’s Latest Celebrity– Meet Sunny Rey
Author – “Quotes and Poems of a Nobody”
By Judi Curry
Not too long ago, I had a chance meeting with Sunny. And it didn’t start out all that well.
Sunny is the sister of Ian Rey, the young man that worked at Henry’s for over 14 years and was let go because of a missing jacket. I had been talking to another store about the possibility of Ian working there, and Sunny misunderstood my intentions. She thought I wanted to do a story – like the other media – when, in fact, I wanted to introduce Ian to the owners of Baron’s Market, where he now works.
After talking to Sunny and straightening out the reason I wanted to talk to Ian, I found her to be an absolutely delightful person; a poetess in her own right; on the upward path of becoming an entity of her own, writing, reading her poetry, etc. to a wide audience in San Diego. To say that she has a following in San Diego and beyond is mild compared to who she is and what she is becoming. [Read more…]
Boy Scouts of America: Be Prepared to Find a Way to Care
“Scouting for All Rally” in Front of Boy Scouts Headquarters, 1207 Upas St. at 11:00 on 10/13/13
By Ernie McCray
Oh, if the Boy Scouts of America
could just begin to understand
how much better the quality of life
could be in this land
if they would just completely
put aside their homophobe-ary
and recognize the humanity
of folks who are LGBT,
folks who add to and enrich our diversity –
if they would just embrace all of them,
even those who are older than eighteen,
the age at which gay boys can still be dismissed
as no longer being worthy of boy scout membership.
It’s way past time they
began treating
all human beings with respect
and decency. [Read more…]
Las Monthly Ondas October Edition: The Art and Heart of Lucha Libre
Ruben Torres’ 2nd Annual HeART of LUCHA
By Brent E. Beltrán
Local music and video producer, curator, lucha libre lover and all around cool vato Ruben Torres is organizing his 2nd annual HeART of LUCHA event. It is being billed as the “largest lucha art and culture exhibition in the nation.”
Last year’s inaugural exhibition took place at The Spot Barrio Logan. For the second installment Ruben has taken over the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park where his other art series, HeART of Lotería, took place earlier this year. In addition to these two series he also organizes an annual winter toy and clothing drive for San Diego and Tijuana youth called Love Thy Neighbor (I wrote about it here). [Read more…]
Mel Freilicher Reads from “Encyclopedia of Rebels”
Wednesday, October 2nd at 7pm at DG Wills Book Store
By Jim Miller
San Diego City Works Press is proud to announce the publication of The Encyclopedia of Rebels by local author and UCSD writing teacher, Mel Freilicher. The book plays with the intersections between history, fiction, memoir, fantasy, and mystery. As Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout puts it, “You could call this both an outrageous comedy and a credible look at the world we live in.”
Mel Freilicher will read from his new book this Wednesday, at 7 PM at D.G. Wills Book Store at 7461 Girard Ave in La Jolla on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2nd at 7 pm as part of the San Diego City College International Book Fair. [Read more…]
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