The White Review:If the fact that Oprah is in it isn’t enough to get you to a theater to see a film directed by a black person, let me further make the case here that you should if for no other reason than Lee Daniels has gone through great pains to make a black film for white people. Shout out to the one Random Evil White Guy in a bowling shirt ( Read more... )

Open mic is not a right; freedom of speech is a right.
Open mics are afforded opportunities.

You nap between wins.

Last night I released a chapbook of poems digitally online, entitled Last One Given. It is notable less for its free price tag and more for the time in which it took me to write the work therein: two days. (The book lists it as three days but that's a technicality of time more than effort ( Read more... )

*** This article is loaded with so many spoilers you're going to need a doctor's note to read it ( Read more... )

"Innovation" does not mean "new to me."

After the polemic I posted the other day about paying poets I have received requests for a follow-up in some areas, specifically what costs a poet might accrue to fulfill feature requests. In the interest of retaining your interest I will keep this particular follow-up short by comparison. National Poetry Month is coming, and we all have poems to ( Read more... )

National Poetry Month is coming and poetry requests are in the air…or rather, free poetry requests are in the air. While I have written elsewhere on the mind-boggling and pioneering concept of paying for the performances and work of poets like any other artist, it remains a necessary observation to make now and then.

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Some people don't need to become better poets. They need to become better people. 

We need to differentiate between when I am insulting you and when you just don't like what I'm saying.