they canceled Reading Rainbow

they canceled Reading Rainbow!!! they sent bombs to Iraq they eat at the fancy restaurants and sit fat in large movie theaters they like to see violence it amuses them they have more things than they can name they feel ownership of other living things they bond closely with non-living things they decided Pluto is … Continue reading they canceled Reading Rainbow →

poetic form

i've heard tell of haiku and sonnet, limerick and pantoum, and whatnot, but here are the kinds of poems that i am used to hearing as a performance poet. backwards and forwards poems. tongue twisters. essays. love poems. anaphora anaphora anaphora. slam. circular poems. biographic. sing-songy. rap. screaming poems. snap your fingers. stomp your feet … Continue reading poetic form →

from the desk of . . .

prof. tucker & ms. gowri k. take your stinky monkey butt over potpourri piles fragrant vagrant sit still and let's collect your things up starting lower again down the upper and higher the flyer the bigger the message the smaller the flier: take my card. grandmaster flash me trash me like oscar the grouch mash … Continue reading from the desk of . . . →

repeat, indefinitely

we'll meet again in our next lives, and in our next next next lives after that we'll fall in love again digging up hip hop artifacts in the year 3012, dusting off the wheels of what we think was the A2 train uptown buried in what used to be the atlantic ocean. we'll date the … Continue reading repeat, indefinitely →

singing the earth

tick tock it won't stop create recreate regenerate like a gecko's tail can't be lost in translation we all go from god to human and back again, speaking with borrowed and liquid tongues bringing back the myth of water the mystery of missing it only once it's gone cannot be found again, like giant squids … Continue reading singing the earth →

bring on the trolls

Underneath the bridge we’ve built between our communities There lives a troll, As stubborn and unstable as our inter-faith, inter-racial, cross-cultural unity, This troll is an ugly, mean troll, watching from below as we build Relationships, forced to recognize reality Like birds recognize gravity We fly diversity flags on pirated flagship state schools built on … Continue reading bring on the trolls →