The Arts, Mentoring, Literature, Running, deejaying (eventually), weight training, "Post-Soul" Identity, Documentary Arts, social criticism...and social participation, afros (the hairdo), public transportation, creoleization, blogging, looking good without looking like you're trying, philosophy and aesthetics, being anti-anti.
Music
Imeem Playlist: profile "uP2_Kl"
Television
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Books
Glyph (P. Everett), Giovanni's Room (J. Baldwin), She (S. Williams), Whose Song? (T. Glave), If He Hollers, Let Him Go (C. Himes), Rose (Li-Young Lee), To Repel Ghost (K. Young), The Intuitionist (C. Whitehead), Chickamauga (C. Wright), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (J. Joyce), Invisible Man (R. Ellison), Topdog/Underdog (S. L. Parks), Waiting for Godot (S. Beckett), Selected Poems (R. Dove)....
Magazines: Callaloo, The Believer, Black Warrior Review, The Nation (sometimes)
My Book: The Listening (UGA PRESS 2004)
Heroes
Bill Russel, Thierry Henry, Barack Obama (until he becomes too engrossed in politics), my momma, Erykha Badu, James Baldwin, The ROOTS, Rita Dove, all my teachers.
I write most in Poetry, but I feel a novel and, dare I say, a play down the line.
Currently, I'm working towards being an arts manager and facilitating other people creating/producing their art. So get at me!
~10/15/2008~ American University MFA Faculty Reading @ American University, Washington, DC
Who I'd like to meet: People who, despite all that's going on, feel good about the world and our ability to influence it for the better. You could be a gardener, trashman, singer, parent or whatever and feel that way.
Hey KD, just offering some myspace love since we've all gone facebook crazy! I'm also thinking I have to get that Common album now that you got that bumpin'.
To the incredible indelible impressions made by the gaze as you gaze in the faces of strangers. To yourself you ask, 'Could this be God? Straight up! Or is it a mask?' ~Sekou Sundiata
Why you almost make me bust my side laughing at all the names in Rich's "full political name"? You know the fam's been getting on him about how full his beard is these days too, right? Anyways, hope you're well.
Sleep is all I do now, after CC. I wanted to sleep on the plane ride home; What I thought was turbulence as I dozed off was actually the plane landing; I never had a chance.
Everything is good in Jerz. I just can't wait for the weather to feel like May instead of March. LOL! Tomorrow is my last class for this semester. I'm working on a 10-15 page proposal now, that is due in the morning, but it's cool because tomorrow night I'm going to let loose at my bestfriend Keesha's birthday celebration. I'm on cloud 9 right now. ;)
I EAT POETRY
