12.06.2011
I’ll be reading as part of The Pulitzer Foundation’s Buddhism & The Beats Reading.
WHEN:
December 8, 2011 from 6:00-9:00 p.m.
WHERE:
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
11.26.2011
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.
11.26.2011
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!
09.22.2011
I’ll be reading with Indigo Moor as part of the 2011 Old Dominion Literary Festival.
WHEN:
October 7, 2011 at 2:00pm
WHERE:
09.22.2011
I’ll be reading as part of St. Louis’s 100 Thousand Poets for Change Reading.
WHEN:
September 24, 2011 at 9:00pm
WHERE:
The Way Out Club
2525 S. Jefferson Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63104
09.22.2011
Here’s part of the reading I gave at O, Miami’s Anthology of Rap Celebration. Shouts out to Kool Moe Dee, Monie Love, Adrian Castro, and Adam Bradley. It was humbling experience sharing a stage with such incredible artists.
08.16.2011
Here are a few photos from the Anthology of Rap Celebration at the O, Miami Poetry Festival this past April. Big ups to Robby Campbell at Beached Miami for sharing the photos.
You can find more images from the Anthology of Rap Celebration here.
08.15.2011
Many thanks to the editors of The American Poetry Review for publishing two of the poems from the Jack Johnson project in the July/August issue of the journal. They’ve posted “Fidelity,” one of the poems in Etta Duryea’s voice, online as well. You can read it here.
Jack Johnson & Etta Duryea
While I was crafting the poems in Etta’s voice, I listened to Arcade Fire’s Funeral . Something about the album made sense in the context of her dialogue. This song was on repeat when I was working on “Fidelity”:
07.30.2011
Thanks to the Lannan Foundation and the Marfa Book Company, I had the pleasure of talking poems and music with Tim Johnson on 93.5 Marfa Public Radio. You can find our conversation from June 3, 2011 here.
05.09.2011
I’ll be reading as part of the InKY Reading Series.
WHEN:
May 13, 2011 at 7:00pm
WHERE:
The Bard’s Town1801 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40205
