it's been a minute...

is this thing still on?!?
*taps mic*

Deifying A Total BREAKDOWN… pt. 1

i'm little-known as a poet. i mean, little little-known... i once had a small following of poet-friends a couple decades ago, during the golden age of poetry message boards circa 2001-6; pre-facebook, pre-myspace. being entirely an unlettered, autodidactic poet, those old poetry boards were the closest thing to a workshop that existed for us small-time poets posting raw, unfinished poems from our personal journals and diaries - sites…

http://upfromsumdirt.com/2023/09/06/deifying-a-total-breakdown-pt-1/

#poetrycommunity #artistcommunity
#blackpoets
#blackwriters #poetsofmastodon #writersofmastodon #writingcommunity
#acab #afrofuturism #afrosurrealism

just trying to find some folks.

the second stop is jupiter… counting down…

the publisher confirms that author copies of the new collection will be mailed to me the first week in july. the book launch isnt until the first week in september. what kinda torture are they trying to put me through!?!?! they just expect me to stare at this book ALL ALONE FOR TWO WHOLE MONTHS until it's delivered unto the world?!?! the publishing world is full of sadists, i swairfogawd. okay, okay... my copies in two more…

http://upfromsumdirt.com/2023/06/23/the-second-stop-is-jupiter-counting-down/

fat meat is greasy…

there is always a longing. a needing to belong. our energies consumed in the searching of identity instead of luxuriating in the liberational privileges that come with cultural self-possession. but enslavement made Blackness a politic, no longer just a condition of natural humanity. an entire continent of people gone from normal & ordinary to "a condition of" in simple regards to the melanin levels acquired in their skin.

http://upfromsumdirt.com/2023/06/23/fat-meat-is-greasy/

wanna read something cool Pat Nolan wrote about the poetries of Bob Kaufman, John Keene, Will Alexander, and myself?! ...yes? ...HELL, YES?!

well, alright then:

https://thenewblackbartpoetrysociety.wordpress.com/2023/05/09/in-the-black/