Don't forget

Today and Thursday at Georgetown: Poetry & fiction readings, lectures, & round-table discussions:Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Michael Eric Dyson, Lawrence Guyot, Vincent Harding, Haki Madhubuti, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sonia Sanchez, Valerie Smith, Eleanor Traylor & many other artists, scholars, and activists.

Open to the Public!!!
For a complete program: http://lannan.georgetown.edu

Give yourself extra drive/bus/cab/Metro time for Pope traffic

CAC --Natturnersrevenge

Little Sleeper

Small feet in pink tennis shoes
Laces left carelessly untied
Panties and mini-skirt discarded
T-shirt hastily removed
Legs spread in a gaudy display

But she knows no shame

Prepubescent breasts barely fill her training bra
Tiny nipples cold and hard
Press like tiny pebbles against the damp cotton
Empty arms outstretched
Palms up to heaven in supplication
An unlikely intercessor for the sins of a man
Mouth agape and eyes rolled back behind half-open lids
Wearing a look of perpetual surprise
Head cradled in a pool of crimson
Body sheathed in dew

But she feels no cold

Daddy's little girl
Made to be the hostess with the mostess
Caters patiently to the flies
As a butterfly stops to sip from her navel

On a bed of weeds at the edge of the woods

She sleeps

Peace and Love,

Alizé (LoversA.blogspot.com)

Text and Photo: Copyright © 2008 Xavier Pierre Jr. All rights reserved.

poems in my sock

poems in my sock

 

the heart of words are

 writing themselves on my wall

falling into my sock

made of yarn

white wool

size small

 and oh the heart of words fell

into my sock

rhythms, poetics

slurred out upon air

how i roll off

my tongue

and just said nothing

but the pain i felt

as tears drizzle on

 i keep my feet warrn

beneath the heavy fabric of

my skin

with words dropping on

breaking into  verses

 

and i say, "poems in my sock"

 

~

©2008 Kai C. 

Georgetown event this week...

If you can brave the Pope traffic and tax day in the D.C. area this week...

Lannan Literary Programs Presents'Let Freedom Ring'Art and Democracy in the King Years, 1954 - 1968 A Literary Symposium and FestivalGeorgetown UniversityApril 15, 16, & 17, 2008

Poetry & fiction readings, lectures, & round-table discussions:Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Michael Eric Dyson, Lawrence Guyot, Vincent Harding, Haki Madhubuti, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sonia Sanchez, Valerie Smith, Eleanor Traylor & many other artists, scholars, and activists.

For a complete program and schedule visit: http://lannan.georgetown.edu/.

"If art is the harbinger of future possibilities, what does it portend for the future of black America?"--Larry Neal

Any NY'ers Here? U r invited to join us: FREE!

I got tired of looking for inexpensive or free writers' workshops & creative support groups. So, I've decided to start one! Come check it out! We can meet online AND in person. This is only open to those in the NYC Metro area: to encourage REAL meetings from time to time:-). Thanx & C U there!


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