poetry

Well, it took me all of 3 posts to City-Data, the main court tv forum, to get the message I received from them which is at the very bottom of this blog entry...which is why I would NEVER donate to the ACLU!

Today was blissful. I woke up tired and groggy, drank bitter coffee on the couch with my incredible lover, had brunch with an old Chicago friend who introduced me to the mystic poet Hafiz of Shiraz, received life advice from Hafiz, spent the afternoon reading sex books, talking to my house-mate Nia, going with Jessi to a delicious desert oriented dinner at Mac, Chad and Chris' unknown named house, studied words, ate nachos, and slept again. Before the dinner I sat on the porch with Graves and talked about her trip to Chiapas to the Zapatista language school.

Lately, I've been reading Salvadoran revolutionary poet Roque Dalton after encountering his essay "Poetry and Militancy in Latin America," in Art on the Line: Essays by Artists About the Point Where Their Art and Activism Intersect." After reading his poems in the bathroom,

Podslam.org celebrates Black History at the Denver Art Museum with 16 slam poets battling on politics and our state of existence in the world. Hosted by muMs & Sunni Patterson, feat. Les Nubians w/ Queen Godis | Beats: DJ Moni | Live Painting: Jay Paul Apodaca | All-Ages | $15 | www.podslam.org

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