Don Peteroy at The Cincinnati Review asked if I would trade poems for a new album by Public Enemy. You can read our exchange here.
In honor of this imaginary Public Enemy album, one of my all-time favorite cuts, “Don’t Believe the Hype”:
I’ll be reading with Sally Van Doren as part of the Fort Gondo Poetry Series.
February 17 , 2012 at 7:00pm
Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts
I’ll be reading as part of the African American Read-In at Penn State-Altoona.
February 13, 2012 at 5:30pm
My friend and poet extraordinaire, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, tagged me in the Pen American Center’s Poetry Relay. You can find the audio and text of five poems from the Jack Johnson project here.
I found this image and some others of Jack Johnson here. The source images are much higher quality than this.
Shout out to Allison Hedge Coke and the editors of Platte Valley Review for running some of the poems from my new project. You can find the poems here.
“In Walked Bud” was inspired by the Thelonious Monk song of the same name from his live album, Misterioso:
I’ll be reading as part of The Pulitzer Foundation’s Buddhism & The Beats Reading.
December 8, 2011 from 6:00-9:00 p.m.
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Many thanks to Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein for including my work on the Poet Laureate website. You can find text and audio of poems from The Big Smoke here.
My friend and cultural scholar, Howard Ramsby, just posted a series of links to some of the Jack Johnson poems on SIUE’s Black Studies Blog. Thanks for your continued support, Howard!
I’ll be reading with Indigo Moor as part of the 2011 Old Dominion Literary Festival.
October 7, 2011 at 2:00pm
I’ll be reading as part of St. Louis’s 100 Thousand Poets for Change Reading.
September 24, 2011 at 9:00pm
The Way Out Club
2525 S. Jefferson Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63104
