Hurry for Online Workshop w/Tom Daley

The $250.00 pricetag is more than reasonable for these celebrated workshops.  I have no affiliation with the workshops other than Tom is both a swell guy and one heck of  a poet, so don’t worry that I’m trying to line my coffers.  Simply put, past workshoppers rave about how he has helped their work, and this poet would [...]

Kanye, Brother, what the…?

I was all ready to say, “The media is blowing things out of proportion again!” but that was unnecessary, Kanye.  Truthful, but not necessary.  She’s 19.  It makes sense that we’re just not that into her, but let the girl enjoy her moment.  Call her.  Twitter.  Something.  But apologize already!
[Update:  He did apologize the evening [...]

Fun Feature on Improved Boston Poet Site

An ardent American sports fan, I believe in 3 strikes, you’re out.  So I published a thrice-rejected poem via the new Instant Publish feature on Bostonpoet.com.  Check it out for yourself, and publish away!  It made me feel like Big Papi smacking hell out of a ball for a three-run homer with 2 outs, 2 [...]

Last reading ’til September!

My last featured reading ’til Fall will be in Cambridge Monday. Check under “Readings…” for details (where there’s also info about a Tapestry… reading this Thursday featuring two of the finer women poets from the other side of the River.)
I unexpectedly read in Brighton last night…standing next to Boston’s first poet laureate, Sam Cornish, and [...]

Interview of the first Poet Laureate of Boston!!

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Black History Month Series (V)

Q: What are the dangers for a Black woman writer of writing first-person-narrator poetry?
A: The White-male-authored “I” of a poem is often seen as a universal spokesperson, a representative of the “human condition”; the White-female-authored “I” is viewed as the puppet of a man-bashing and very self-obsessed girl; the African-American male “I” is [...]

Black History Month Series (II)

Q: What does it mean, really, to be a multicultural writer?
A: I write as I live, through all of my valued private and public traditions and experiences…as an American. There’s no pie chart for my cultural percentages, and 9 times out of 10, the Black part is not open for discussion.
Blackness is a [...]

November Poems

My rare political poetry, part of a 7 in 7 challenge:
Must’ve Bumped My Head
Must’ve bumped my head. Could swear I heard
on the 11 O’Clock news that a Black person
just became president of the U. S. of A.
Fell asleep waiting to watch the old white guy
pull another fast one like that woman
as running mate ploy. Tricky [...]

“It’s Alive!”

Yay! My blog finally pops up as the first item when I’m googled.  Yay!  Hurrah!  Eureka!

Never thought I’d see the day…

I haven’t much to say here, trying to write a poem that’s not cooperating at all. I guess even the muse has been rendered speechless today.  Yes, everybody saw the polls, heard the preliminary numbers, watched Palin add buckets of water to the tanking campaign, but….  I never thought I’d see the day.
Congratulations, President Obama. [...]