Love L8trs is a show that evolved in 2004 when I had one of my bouts of self-recrimination after running into an ex-boyfriend on the street. I started to wonder about the different reactions we have when we see an ex, or when we're reminded of the ex, and that the reaction usually has more to do with the way the breakup happened and where you are ( Read more... )

Scenario: I’m crossing the street with my friend, on our way to the theater from our houses. We live, maybe, four-five blocks away- my friend's car was left there after she drank too much the night before. Anyhoo, we’re crossing Sycamore, the first street, when tires squeal behind us, and a harsh voice calls out, “Hey!”

Startled, I turn around to ( Read more... )

I am beginnig to post fragments and beginnings of writings I've been doing over the past few weeks. They are raw, but they are products...

The Queen City stands on the banks of the Ohio with a chip on it s shoulder. In many ways, it so resembles the black men it spawns; longing to be normal, learning normal from a TV screen or Hollywood images, and ( Read more... )

slipping is illusitory as if it is all that i have to work with
but i do not believe it
it is a mime cognative with time interfering with my rhime
but as a subject my grip is
expected to slipp excelerant to breeze while
i just freeze
in motion like a vette
stollen on a bet
and driven into the sunset
and gone with ray of light that I traveled with for a nano ( Read more... )

What do you want from your art?

I wish to poet like Pollack painted, with my whole body, and with no idea of what I was about until I emerge from it.

I wish to be immersed within the poem with words dripping off every orifice, viscous and flowing, with gravity taking them to their rightful places upon the page. I want the movements of my entire ( Read more... )

From Ed Mabrey...
In modern times and in the performance poetry circle, the form of traditional haiku has been tweaked a bit to be more like a senryu.

That said, here is all you need to know for now.

You need 17 syllables total.

5 in the first line

7 in the second

5 in the last line.

I want you (this means anyone who reads this) to either post them here ( Read more... )

Fif!!!

(Cue Dave Chappelle)

This is my "fif" article Reunion Features Families- and right now I'm out of assignments. Who knows if I'll get another...who knows. But enjoy, all the same. And come to the event- it's not just for Black families anymore.

August 17, 2006
Section: Features
Edition: Final
Page: 4D

Weekend reunion features music and lots of ( Read more... )

Do you know your talents ( Read more... )

So yet another article- this time a piece on Scribble Jam. It was shorter than I wanted it to be- I had a lot to say about the event.

Let me just say, the copy editing was not mine. It looked good when I turned it in. Geesh.

So readers (if any of you are still out there), I've been a bit silent. Lots of swirly stuff goin' on, just no specific words coming to represent the stuff.

But I did manage to get my third article in (almost) at deadline- Event Isn't Only About the Music.

July 31, 2006
Section: Tempo
Edition: Final
Page: 3D

Event isn't only about the music
Embrya ( Read more... )