Monthly Archives: August 2015

Wilson as Redemption Song

We are wandering in the wilderness; all there is to save us is an unsung song of self. If you can’t imagine North America as a wilderness you have not experienced history from my perspective. My people were captured and … Continue reading

Posted in artist scholar, August Wilson, Black Arts | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Blood on the Mountain, III

Blood is a motif in King Hedley, II. It is a strong and instructive note. It signals the life and death struggle to create and maintain life in marginalized spaces. The tension between the discussion of abortions and blood feuds … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Blood on the Mountian, II

Tonya does not want to have anymore children. Not in a world where “their friends might, kill them, the police might kill them, in a world that don’t respect life.” She says her 17 year old daughter with a baby … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

King Hedley, II – Blood on top of the mountain I

It’s 1985 and papers are full of drive by shootings. There is no work.  In the Hill District of Pittsburgh PA and across the nation people are trying to grow opportunity out of rocky soil. The times are violent on … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

mineral folk

in the bottom of the world empty belly hungry soul diamonds in the rough roughing it pulling up on bootstraps yeah we do impossible sideways on life’s freeway just the beat & hustle no guarantees no promises no warranty just … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

strive

prophetic dreams blood and feathers shots in the night the shrinking ground edging forward towards open sky or the abyss struggling in the dark looking for the light hoping to fall up bruised by being held down no space for … Continue reading

Posted in Black Arts | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The Lower Bottom Playaz poised to complete The American Century Cycle Project.

King Hedley II is the beginning of the end of The Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc., momentous American Century Cycle Project. King Hedley is currently running at The Flight Deck on Broadway in Oakland CA. It opens The Playaz, main stage … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

I Am

I have a majick life unlikely but true fiction worthy times are mine I have a majick life attracting the miraculous the preciously unpredictable surrounded by confirmation unfolding from nothing taller than MT Thai on time every time in time … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Mike Brown, 2015

We would rather have our sons than wear t shirts That say rest in peace we know there can be no peace In the absence of justice no peace as long as it’s just us overstanding Black lives Matter no … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

lifted measure two

some will not come they won’t hear the drum the cannon roars the air is thin the time is always now marching believers know this they are lacing their boots uphill forward there is no other way never has been … Continue reading

Posted in right handed poems | Tagged , | 1 Comment