My Friday Evening Music

I heard this sometime in 2002 or 2003 while listening to Yahoo Launch, which I was somehow able to play on the work computer. Amazing I was introduced to this before the days of YouTube.

My Friday Morning Music

More of The Last Poets.

My Monday Morning Music

Something different for National Poetry Month. Spoken word and music.

 

Black Lives Have Always Mattered

Submit to this new anthology by Abiodun Oyewole, an original member of The Last Poets! More information on how to submit here. 

Stone Soup Croutons, 6-13-16, The Last Would-Be Poet

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked up from poems overheard from Stone Soup's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title later. I do my best to get this out by the morning after Tuesday. That didn't happen this week. Its the end of June, and I'm exhausted for too many reasons. I wanted this out by yesterday, but today is just as fine. I suspect the schedule will go back to normal next week as we get closer to the one year anniversary I started this series.

Comedian Reece Cotton was the awesome feature on Monday. As I predicted, writing my poem this week was a challenge. It was going one way during a great open mic, then Reece, like all good comedians, swerved it another way. It took me a while to catch up.  Props also to Rich Herb, who did a good chunk of work from The Last Poets and helped with the ending.


The Last Would-Be Poet

Every new writer's precious poem is as follows:

Act One - Writer sits on bench.