people are poets are prophets

 [to see a video of me performing this piece, click here ] “ Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integra...

 To organize around your dream To trust in some angelic scheme To write and sing the songs you hear All true roads lead here The rat-infeste...

are remembering our name waking up & taking what was always promised us but never was intended to be ours we the workers / we the renter...

 “ Relent, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with your mercy, that we may rejoice and...

 A moment of silence for Macy's This broken shell of a luxury store On the once Magnificent Mile The windows are shattered The clothing ...

George Floyd called for assistance And was murdered on our screens The cop's knee pressed against his neck Now people round the e...

Eyes on the Prize (2020) Adam Gottlieb George and Eric cried “I can't breathe”, We say their names as we take the streets Keep you...

this world sucks. so let's make a new one. you & me both baby (you can come too, son) we could be new, love we could be princes...

On Holy Wednesday (which was also the first night of Passover and the Sleepless Night of Shab-e-barat) in the middle of the great pan...

Theme:  Coping with (the COVID-19) Crisis Guiding Question:  What blessings, possibilities and hopes are emerging amidst the grief,...

From the couch on which I sit with a pug dog on my lap beside my window on this wet gray day in Chicago, to the folks along the highw...

“If we all do as our kindred have done and refuse to fight for our lives and for our ordinances, they will quickly destroy us from...