Spoken without words. There is poetry in the deaf community as well. Here is Crom Saunders’ RAINBOW BRIDGE- an ASL poem about the Orlando tragedy. [Read more…]
A Review of ‘Last Days in Ocean Beach’ by Jim Miller; Coping With the End of the World As We Know It
Last Days in Ocean Beach by Jim Miller – Book Release Event Friday, April 20, 7-9pm at the Ocean Beach Green Center
Editor’s Note: We’re giving Jim Miller’s column a week off to celebrate the publication of his new book.
By Ian Duckles
Jim Miller’s new book Last Days in Ocean Beach (City Works Press, 2018), explores the question of how to live one’s life in the face of looming catastrophic climate change. The novel, like life, is challenging, depressing, hopeful, sad, and filled with moments of incredible beauty and incredible tragedy and is highly recommended.
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Still Loving After All These 80 Years
If I’m breathing April 18th, 2018,
I will be 80 years old.
And to brag a little bit,
I lived those years
with a lot of love in my soul
and that’s quite an ac-com-plish-ment
for someone with
COLORED written on his birth cer-ti-ficate [Read more…]
Palestinian Journalist Yasser Murtaja
Elizabeth Acevedo – ‘Beloved or If You Are Murdered Tomorrow’ – All Def Poetry | Video Worth Watching
From the Huffington Post’s Latino Voices:
Acevedo told The Huffington Post that the poem is inspired by the thoughts that run through her head when she hears that yet another black man has been shot and killed by police. “I was cooking black beans the day when the Jordan Davis case went to trial, and I was distracted, thoughtless in some ways, and the pot boiled over and the beans burned,” Acevedo said. “Something about that image really struck home. How the stove smudged, how the beans look when they’re split open, how heavy my heart was over this kid in Florida. But the history of Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians) also played into the moment. This is a Caribbean dish of simple ingredients, rice and beans elevating the other. It’s also A dish named after the Moor conquest of Spain. The racial dynamics in all of that: the Caribbean, Spain and North Africa, Jordan Davis, coalesced through that metaphor. It was how I was able to enter the poem by exploring that moment and my stake in it as an Afro-Latina and partner of a black man.”
Despacito – Musical Chicken Version (Mr. Chicken) | Video Worth Watching
O.K. I think enough time has elapsed since Despacito burst onto the music scene that I can once again hear that tune and not run screaming from the room. Especially if the tune is sung by a very talented musical chicken. Hmm, wonder if he’s any relation to Foghorn Leghorn … Enjoy! [Read more…]
Operating Instructions | Geo-Poetic Spaces
Prior to surgical intervention
complete a thorough examination
of the subject
Note critical anatomical features
essential to survival
ignorantly puncturing a major artery
has terminal implications
that must be avoided [Read more…]
Langston Hughes -‘I, Too, Sing America’ | Video Worth Watching
Langston Hughes reading his poem “I, too, sing America”. As testament to its enduring impact consider that according to the Poetry Archive, it was written in 1924 and recorded by Folkways in 1955, and that Wikipedia notes: “On September 22, 2016, his poem “I, Too” was printed on a full page of the New York Times in response to the riots of the previous day in Charlotte, North Carolina.” [Read more…]
Broom Man | National Poetry Month
The broom man
sweeps up each day
in front of the library—
dreams, hopes, brushed together
with leaves and candy wrappers.
Carrying his broom like a scabbard,
he is a guard at the entrance
of some dark journey. [Read more…]
Hanif Abdurraqib – “All Of The Ways I’ve Kept Myself Alive” | Video Worth Watching
Hanif Abdurraqib performing “All Of The Ways I’ve Kept Myself Alive” at the LA release show for his debut book, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much. Filmed at Art Share LA. [Read more…]
The Third Conning | National Poetry Month
Turning and turning over malls and freeways
The drones outrace their wireless signals;
Houses fall apart; grocery carts are filled with gear;
Mere starvation is loosed on half the world,
While others eat designer foods and
Protest they’re entitled to deny the real. [Read more…]
Art Students Use Light to Turn Trump’s Border Prototypes Into Art | Video Worth Watching
This Voice of San Diego video by Adriana Heldiz features Southwestern College professor Perry Vasquez introducing us to highlights of an art project that incorporates the controversial border wall prototypes near the U.S.-Mexico border at Otay Mesa. The project was a collaboration among Vasquez’ students and two other local artists: Jill Holslin and Andrew Sturm.
Jill Holslin is also an occasional contributor to the San Diego Free Press and Perry Vasquez is the artist and illustrator for San Diego Free Press columnist Jim Miller’s latest publication: Last Days in Ocean Beach (City Works Press, 2018). [Read more…]
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