This poem is beautifully conceived and performed, unbelievably by a 13 year old. Follow the link to watch the video. (requires quicktime) Bi-Racial Hair | WGBH Lab.

Explaining Relativity Forget the clatter of ballistics, The monologue of falling stones, The sharp vectors And the stiff numbered grids. It’s so much more a thing of pliancy, persuasion, Where space might cup itself around a planet Like your palm around a stone, Where you, yourself the planet, Caught up in some geodesic dream, Might [...]

I just wanted to share the link to this website, because it is a really cool website: How a Poem Happens.

Yay public television! Poetry Everywhere | PBS.

Vienna Teng is a singer and songwriter whose work is not only poetic but also particularly apt for this political moment. I want to share her song No Gringo, which tells the story of what would happen if the fence at the border were turned around: Mexicans keeping los gringos out. As she said at [...]

Jimmy Santiago Baca isn’t from East LA, but that’s okay. I can still be cool with him. A poet of Chicano and Apache descent, Baca started writing poetry after he taught himself to read and write while he was incarcerated as a drug offender. Baca has gone on to become a celebrated poet. In 2004 [...]

This list is borrowed from a page on facebook. It is continuously updated, so look for recent additions. Mariposas by Ricardo Nazario-Colón Show Me The Border to The Sun: Hilton Obenzinger Bonfire: Devreaux Baker AZ S.B. 1070 & Immigrant Genes – By Darren Lyman Arizona (The Hanging Tree) by Ricardo Nazario-Colón Into the Dark Future [...]

Shame And some say “Shame” when we’re talkin’ up And “Shame” for the way we are And “Shame” cause we ain’t got a big flash house Or a steady job and a car. Some call it “Shame” when our kids they die From colds or from sheer neglect “Shame” when we live on the river [...]

Jason Crane remembers Jaime Escalante, one of my heroes,  in a wonderful piece. He begins: I sing the body mathematical; my children calculate the warp and woof of the universe. Read it in full: My Name is Jaime Escalante.

Cate Marvin’s World’s Tallest Disaster, was published, complete with a painting of a person falling from a burning skyscraper, just moments before 9/11. Her shocking foresight is matched only by her daring and refreshing freshness. At a young age, she was not afraid to write about “Me and Men” or to write about setting men, [...]