pay close attention to the
european behind the curtain…

Words do matter.
via arabicwords_0

9 contemporary Black poets to read (featuring a few Bay Area poets): oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/list/share/219…

These contemporary poets impress everywhere they go and may still be performing at a museums, libraries, or festivals near you!

Glory to the resistance

So I’m starting a thing. April 26th.

More soon.

we got our free monthly writing workshop coming up this monday 4/22 6pm-8pm(pacific)

this month will be facilitated by Imani Cezanne 🎉 slide in person if you in the vicinity. there’s also a virtual option.

rsvp link: bit.ly/WHENTHESMOKECO…

new Mozzy dropped. it’s a holiday!

if we make these connections where we arrive at is the fact that total revolution is the only way out. all progress can be reversed or absorbed as reforms while suffering is re-directed. these institutions work together to maintain this oppressive reality. we need a new one.

Spontaneous organizing is liberal + easily lends itself to liberal “reform.”

I hope that now permanent organizing structures are being built to confront settler-colonialism + imperialism; & that combat western propaganda + the neo-colonial governances it supports elsewhere.

what are two texts you think every Black poet publishing today should read?

mine are:

1. A Capsule Course in Black Poetry Writing

2. My Adventures as a Social Poet by Langston Hughes