Old Men Drive Alone
Old men drive around town alonenowhere to go no matter how hard they trythe Mercedes takes them nowherecan't stop by this friend's house he's deadthis friend is crazycan't stop and chat with himthis...
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Marvin X Speaks in Fresno at the African American Museum
Marvin X spoke briefly in Fresno last night at the African American Museum's Kwanza ceremony. The poet told of his early life in the Valley, struggle to teach at Fresno State University, his recent...
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Navigating the Perilous Mental Landscape
Navigating the perilous Mental LandscapeLike the earthquake in Japan, man too is in mental motion, a mind quake of the most devastating degree that is rocking his mental equilibrium to the core!We must...
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Marvin X Speaks on the Transition of Poet Jayne Cortez
Greetings, Marvin---Thank you again for sharing your creative remarks regarding Jayne Cortez. The show will air from 4pm - 6pm tomorrow on KPOO, 89.5FM, San Francisco/www.kpoo.com.Hope you get to...
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Governor Pardons Wilmington 10, Free at Last!
North Carolina governor pardons Wilmington 10Jamil Smith, @JamilSmith12/31/2012The Rev. Benjamin Chavis gives a clenched fist salute on December14, 1979, after being paroled by then-North Carolina...
View ArticleNew Year's Day in the American Slave System
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish...
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Afghanistan and Echoes of 1989
With U.S. Set to Leave Afghanistan, Echoes of 1989By THOM SHANKERPublished: January 1, 2013WASHINGTON — The young president who ascended to office as a change agent decides to end the costly and...
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AALBC.com Newsletter
December 31st 2012 – Issue #197Hello Marvin,I hope you enjoy AALBC.com's last eNewsletter for 2012. Please take a moment to complete our shortWebsite and eNewsletter Feedback Survey. Your responses are...
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In the name of love, a poem for Fresno
photo Ken JohnsonThis is my land.I own this land in the name of loveland of my ancestorsland of nat turnerland of sojourner truthland of harriet tubmanI claim all of itevery inch of itin the name of...
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The Fresno Poems: "Secret Life of a Poet"
photo Ken JohnsonSecret Life of a PoetSometimes he claimed cityof it loved itenergy diversity creativitybut in the DNA of his mindfields of cotton grape vinescow patches orchardsin rivers of his...
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Dear Marvin X, A poem for my teacher
Dear Marvin XIt is 2013the fire is lowand knowing has never been needed moreme need knowing like a dope fiend need a hitbut a dope fiend is dedicatedwe just in the darkwont reach for the lightwont...
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Job for Media Relations Manager
National Writers UnionJanuary 2, 2012We start the new year with a job opening for a media relations manager to work in either NYC, Washington, DC or Portland, OR. Please let Ann Hoffman know if you...
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The Fresno Poems: "Date with my Son"
Again the vines orchardsAmtrak to the valleyhesitation fearthe love the hatereturn to old battlefield for righteousness justicebattle I didn't need to fightdeath of warriors who battled beside mePat...
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Black Bird Press News and Review
Black Bird Press News & Review Afghanistan and Echoes of 1989New Year's Day in the American Slave SystemGovernor Pardons Wilmington 10, Free at Last!Marvin X Speaks on the Transition of Poet Jayne...
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The Fresno Poems: "Two Poets in the Park"
For Sherley Ann Williams Aug 25, 1944--July 6, 1999We sat in Central Park, NYC winter '9770 degrees in Februarywe met the night before after 17 years of silencehigh school lovers should always be...
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The Fresno Poems: "Mama's Love"
photo Ken JohnsonMama taught loveloveeach otherloveeveryoneno matterwhat colorlovebrotherssistersloveMama taughtHer Christian Science made us know "the truth"truth isain't no love like Mama's...
View ArticleThe Fresno Poems: "I Will Go into the City"
The following poem will resound as long and as deeply as any love poem ever written by anyone: Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonja Sanchez, Maya et al. --Fahizah AlimI Will Go into the...
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The Fresno Poems: "She So Sweet When She Sleep"
Marvin Xphoto Kamau Amen Rafor PYShe so sweet when she sleeplove looking at hercovers over headwon't let me in bedexcept to put her to sleepthengot to leavesleep on couchbaby can grouchif she don't get...
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Insider Attacks Shape Afghan War
Insider Attacks in Afghanistan Shape the Late Stages of a WarVideo Image via Site Monitoring ServiceMahmood is shown being welcomed by the Taliban after he opened fire on American trainers in Kunar...
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