The Practicing Poet: Dialogue to Creativity, Poetry, and Liberation

In Memory of Kathy Chang(e)

Published on October 16, 2020

I have read “The Peace Sculpture Wore” in memory of Kathy Chang(e) at a NYC open mic or reading series… read more

Poets Crossing, USA

Published on August 31, 2020

Poets Crossing, USA The… read more

Shout Out!

Published on July 19, 2020

Thank you Writers Resist and Montreal Serai for continuing to move your progressive literary spaces forward during very difficult… read more

The NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade Cancelled? Don’t Be Silly.

Published on June 14, 2020

What is this urgency to define oneself? I get some of it: Defining yourself before someone defines you seems critical…. read more

Policing America

Published on May 31, 2020

I have a love/hate relationship with police—bitter lately. After my experiences with cops (a troubling Alabama sheriff sticks out) and … read more

The Plagued Masked Man Vs Young Buck

Published on April 19, 2020

The Plagued Masked Man Vs Young Buck My Social Security has never been guaranteed. I grew up blind to being… read more

No Bernie, No Party, Austerity 2020

Published on April 12, 2020

No Bernie, No Party, Austerity 2020 #45 plays, Covid-19 in the air, Passover looming, Bernie stops running—sacrificed for The… read more

Dream or Nightmare

Published on April 10, 2020

You know: Bernie decided, was convinced, or was forced to stop running during a pandemic and #45’s sociopathic world-destroying U.S…. read more

Lockdown Experiment

Published on March 26, 2020

Considering that I’m being asked, like everyone in New York City, to self-isolate because of Covid-19 and anticipate… read more

What It Takes

Published on March 18, 2020

To Raise a Child With all due respect to the descendants of Igbo, Yoruba, and other African… read more

Hail Satan?

Published on February 10, 2020

Uneven Piece for My Online Therapist Our start wasn’t bad, what with uneven asynchronous writing. Yet, line breaks … read more

Funny Bone Grave Stones

Published on January 22, 2020

There was a spike in U.S. deaths shortly after the 2016 presidential elections (not true: just play along for now)…. read more

Are You Crazy Yet?

Published on January 8, 2020

I have been questioning my grasp on reality for some time, especially the last four years; and this week, a… read more

Who Delivers Who in Time?

Published on December 25, 2019

“The Crying Baby.” Oil, Charcoal, Paper, Pastel on Canvas by Tarasonoio Giovanna Mancini. Who Delivers Who in Time?… read more

Look Out For The Drift

Published on November 26, 2019

Look Out for the Drift If you see yourself in a living room mirror speaking… read more

Kathy Change Remembered

Published on October 22, 2019

The Peace Sculpture Wore … read more

Looking Normal in Kew Gardens

Published on October 20, 2019

Looking Normal in Kew Gardens It’s normal not to think about the homeless mentally ill, until one picks up… read more

Who’s Watching You?

Published on September 29, 2019

Or not… If I Should Die Suddenly You should know that I was far from done; that… read more

Young & Old/Hot & Cold

Published on August 31, 2019

Bloodstone When do we ever stop looking for a father or mother—especially when craving for… read more

Should I Speak of Distant Oppression?

Published on July 30, 2019

Should I Speak of Distant Oppression? Generations of my people were never butchered for their land or turned… read more

Coming Back Ranting

Published on June 30, 2019

It has been exactly one strange year since my last post. Turning sixty, my mother’s death, and seeing the psycho-pathology… read more

Political Muse

Published on June 26, 2018

To Be for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez In the recent past of shattered hope, The… read more

Show Your Love!

Published on June 14, 2018

Alexandria is not in my congressional district. I did not even know her name until two weeks ago. However,… read more

“To Be” for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Published on June 11, 2018

You may think this post is a political advertisement: I see it is a love poem and public service announcement…. read more

Ropa Vieja in Cuba and Puerto Rico

Published on May 31, 2018

*This article was picked up by Counterpunch for their June 4, 2018 issue. Ropa Vieja in Cuba and Puerto Rico… read more

Kew and Willow Books Open Mic

Published on April 24, 2018

Bernard Titowsky’s Austin Used Book Shop disappeared from Kew Gardens, Queens, in 1984 when he lost his lease after 30… read more

The Common Core: It’s a Cookbook!

Published on March 27, 2018

It’s often repeated old news that U.S. public education is being undermined by corporate interests and elitist ideologues. Yet, this sinister… read more

American Honey

Published on February 18, 2018

Montreal Serai’s “Literature: Spirit” issue is out! “American Honey” and three more of my poems were included. Grateful to be in… read more

Being Cowed: A Disorienting Unity

Published on January 25, 2018

“Hey, diddle, diddle” by Mother Goose Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon;… read more

Anti-Heroin Chic on This Black Friday

Published on November 24, 2017

I recently came across an intriguing literary outlier space called Anti-Heroin Chic that supports dealing directly and creatively with pain instead of… read more