Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The Feminine Intention
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
An Untitled Slam Poem
is is a poem I'm going to use in a poetry Slam this Sunday, if I can get accommodated properly due to my speech impairment. It'll be my first official Slam ever. I'm not expecting to win, although it's nice to dream about that, I just want to do it to prove I can. To prove that just because you...
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Beforehand
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Friday, October 17, 2008
The Downturn
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Worlds Crashing at Dawn (a new poem on Blackness)
(thanks to African-American Lives 2 on PBS for inspiring this poem) I realize at four in morning watching PBS After another new PCA chose not to show up, leaving me stranded in my wheelchair overnight, even though Leah offered to put me in my bed before she left after giving me meds and getting me...
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
To the Unknown Man
(dedicated to a man I met at work today) You wonder over to my booth skinny, tall, chestnut man with two brown children in tow- an older girl, a younger boy. You grab my queer zine, so quickly no one but me notices. I smile, but say nothing You put down the book. I wonder if you have a wife. if your...
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Two Poems!
Bob Blue, Presente (thanks to Mary Kate Small, for the title and Erin Fitzgerald for transcribing the rough draft. In memory of Bob Blue - musician, educator, father, and friend.) I learned more from you than I ever told you or anyone. Over countless games of Scrabble that you nearly always won on...
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
World AIDS Day Poem
Author's Note: This is going to be a bookmark at the Winter Festival. I'll charge 50 cents and give the money to HampshireCare, our local AIDS service organization. 12/1 (a poem in honor of World AIDS Day) W orld O f those left behind R emembers the L oss of 25 million. For more than a D ecade many...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
Bring It On, Fred!
Bring It On, Fred! (Dedicated to the Reverend Fred Phelps and his rest of misguided followers at the Westboro Baptist Church who in Topeka, Kansas. He operates the websites godhatesfags.com, fodhatesamerica.com, godhatescanada.com, as well as godhatessweden.com. The group has picketed my former town...
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Monday, March 19, 2007
First Do No Harm
First Do No Harm (Dedicated to the amazing men and women of the International Justice Mission, a nonprofit devoted to ending human trafficking in Cambodia and other places and inspired by watching Children for Sale, a documentary on MSNBC and learning about Dr. Jerry Albom, American citizen and...
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