April 2025
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Art = Survival
I’m excited to say Diannely Antigua has selected my poem “semicolon” to be featured in the Aplomb Project‘s 2025 Portrait Project Book. It’s become an annual mixed-media anthology of sorts of art, stories, and poetry about resilience in the face of trauma. There will be a gala at the gallery on Jun 21, which I… Continue reading
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The reality of death
While I was attending Slam Free or Die last night, I got word from Poets Reading the News that they were going to publish a poem I wrote about the tragic in-ring death of professional wrestler Vince Steele. And then they announced that it was live that same night. So here you go, a meditation… Continue reading
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John Donne x Usher, Cardi B x Lillian Randolph
RipRap, a literary journal out of California State University – Long Beach, just accepted two more of the hip hop poems for publication in their next issue. One is a blues that goes out to both Cardi B and Lillian Randolph, who voiced the Mammy character in the original Tom & Jerry cartoons and had… Continue reading
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An insect bound in the Gulf Stream
Gulf Stream Magazine just accepted one of the dreamscapes for its next issue (which has the theme “Last Words”). They’ve had the piece for a while and indicated to me that they held off on responding because they knew that eventually they’d have an issue in which it belonged, so I suppose this is the… Continue reading
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