Oh, hey--this is a thing, on Tuesday. 😊 Guest hosted by @poetsimplysherri! Ticket link in bio #poetryfeature #Analysis #thepoetknowasAnalysis #poetryhost #SimplySherri #busboysandpoets #14thandV #spokenword #poetry #poetryopenmic @simplypoeticentertainment #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum #bmorepoet
“People came from all around, like actors in some morbid tragedy taking their place at the place of the skull. It was a hellified scene as the crowd swelled, hurling lynch-mob epithets and taking bets as this radical organizer who posed a threat was hung up to dry. A working-class brother getting’ worked over. And in the midst of the laughs and jeers, the cries and tears, there was no rescue. No ‘cavalry’ at Calvary; naw, he was history. He must have had Albert Sabo as a judge, and maybe it was Pontius who piloted Mumia onto Death Row.” --from my poem, “Better Friday” [available on the album “A Couple Thousand Years Later,” download purchasable from Bandcamp; also available in the book, “Somewhere Through the Haze,” restock coming soon to @redemmas] [See liberationandpoetry.com (in bio) for links] A blessed and powerful weekend to you. A Luta continua! [“The Struggle continues!”] #goodfriday #goodfriday2024 #justice #justicepoetry #liberationtheolgy #faithontheLeft #betterfriday #betterfridaypoem #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook #alutacontinua #thestrugglecontinues @smallrich
When you purchase this online at redemmas.org/books, you might as well get another book to go along with it; get the most for your postage! [Or just come to the store. 😉] International friends: available on lulu.com in some countries. 🙏🏼 #SomewhereThroughTheHaze #poetry #poetrybook #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #justicepoetry @redemmas #redemmas @luludotcom
Get them. 😉 Links in my website. [See bio] #poetrybook #SomewhereThroughTheHaze #poetryalbum #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #spokenword #poetry
Hi! 🙂 Allow me to take this post-barbershop selfie moment to remind you a) to go to the linktree in the bio of @simplypoeticentertainment for great poetry events happening Thursday & Friday of this week, b) that books make great gifts; thus, you should come get some at @redemmas or get some online at redemmas.org/books (mailing within the U.S.), and c) my album, "A Couple Thousand Years Later" (download purchasable from Bandcamp) makes a great gift that you can send worldwide! [link in my bio] Thus end your barbershop selfie announcements for this evening. 😊 @csharpbarberco --> @gordystrings #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #barbershopselfieannouncements #barbershopselfie #poetry #spokenword #poetryevents #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum #Bandcamp @bandcamp #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook #booksmakegreatgifts #redemmas #SimplyPoeticEntertainment #SimplySherri
GIFT IDEAS! 🎁 I invite you consider, for a physical/hard copy gift, my book "Somewhere Through the Haze," and for a digital gift my album, "A Couple Thousand Years Later." I think you'll find them great convo starters, stocking stuffers, and collectibles! 🙂🙏🏼✊🏼 Ask me more! Book from redemmas.org/books (mailing within the U.S.). Album download purchasable from Bandcamp (link in bio); worldwide. 🌎 #poetry #spokenword #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook #justiceandhumanrights #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum #justiceandhumanrights #love #family #thegiftofpoetry
Dr. Bettina Love (@blovesoulpower) came to @redemmas last night and PUT 👏🏼 IT 👏🏼 DOWN re: the failures of educational reform, the harmful effects of privatization on school systems, the importance of discerning how pejorative language/phraseology affects how we think of the education of Black children, the importance of self care for educators, etc., discussing her new book "Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal"! Get her book(s) at redemmas.org/books (we mail within the U.S.). And be on the lookout for its airing soon on @cspan Book TV, in convo with @espositoforbaltimore! #BettinaLove #PunishedforDreaming #education #criticalanysis #blackeducation @stmartinspress @redemmas #redemmas #workerowned #independentbookstore #veganrestaurant #baltimore #maryland #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook
I'm so stoked that I got to meet in-person rad, justice-conscious creative/poet/filmaker @radicaleleanor last night when she came to @redemmas to be the interlocutor for last night's event! Appreciate you! 🙏🏼❤️✊🏼 #EleanorGoldfield @projectcensored #ProjectCensored #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #artivists #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook #redemmas #workercollective #independentbookstore #veganrestaurant #baltimore #maryland
You know you can get this from @redemmas, right? 🙂🙏🏼✊🏼 redemmas.org/books [Mails within the U.S. International friends: msg me.] #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook #poetry #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #justicepoetry #redemmas #radicalLeft #independentbookstore #veganrestaurant #eventspace #IrxsKirsch
What? You have neither my album nor my book? Oh, wow... 😥 Your life is meaningless. 😔 🤣🤣🤣 OK--That's not really true. 😝 But, seriously, download "A Couple Thousand Years Later" from Bandcamp. Order "Somewhere Through the Haze" from redemmas.org/books (for mailing in the U.S.) or lulu.com (in many countries). ☺️🙏🏼❤️ [PRO TIP: If you really want the complete experience, get both! Reinforce your listening with reading, hear music applied to some pieces, and hear pieces on the album which aren't in the book!] #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum @bandcamp #Bandcamp #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook @redemmas #redemmas #lulu #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #poetry #spokenword #Bmorepoet #justicepoetry [& more on the album ;) ] #supportindependentartists
“Right, right—I know we all have service people in our families. We love them very much, Would very much love for them not to be taken away from our families Or to take people away from theirs.” --from my poem, "Recruitment," on the album “A Couple Thousand Years Later” Available on Bandcamp [link in bio] Also in the book “Somewhere Through the Haze,” available in the U.S. from redemmas.org or in many countries from lulu.com As we remember loved ones and others lost in the horror of war (in all its forms), let’s not glorify their being made to suffer—and commit—such horrors and atrocities in the service of U.S. corporate & government greed and racist oppression. Let’s also remember those lives lost in the opposing forces, as well as the many civilians lost (yes—that means killed by the U.S., as much or more than by opposing forces)*. #memorialday #USmemorialday #USimperialism #USmilitarism #Recruitment #recruitmentpoem #spokenword #poetry #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #poetryalbum #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetrybook #SomewhereThroughtheHaze *An excellent examination of this is @nick_turse 's “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.” Available at @redemmas or another of your favorite independent bookstores, or on @librofm.
You can download the album "A Couple Thousand Years Later" from Bandcamp. You can order the book "Somewhere Through the Haze" from redemmas.org (@redemmas) within the U.S., or lulu.com in a number of countries. Both are inexpensive, and I think you'll find them quite interesting. Let me know what you think when you get them! 🙏🏼🙂✊🏼 #thepoetknownasAnalysis #Analysis #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum #spokenword #poetry #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook #justicepoetry #baltimorepoet #bmorepoet #redemmas host of #RedEmmasMotherEarthPoetryVibe #readabook #bookstagram #indyartist #supportindependentartists
Ahh--Isn't it the most wonderful thing when you meet a cool new customer from out of town visiting @redemmas and who, you discover upon conversing with them, is a big fan of poetry and so, in addition to the black radical organizing book they purchase, they ask you for poetry suggestions and you, of course, are ready with plenty (including your own crew)--suggestions they joyfully act upon? [And so should you!] ☺️📚💖 [Oh--and Happy National Poetry Writing Month! ✒️] #redemmas #workerowned #workercollective #independentbookstore #poetry #poetrybooks #yourpersonalbookseller #thepowerofpoetry #blackarts #blackexcellence #somewherethroughthehaze #mudjubilee #freakydarlings #crossfire #crossfirebook #dreaminginkreyol #napowrimo
One of the things I appreciated about @dereckapurnell's talk at @redemmas last week on her book, "Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests and the Pursuit of Freedom," is her reminder of the need to hold black centrist Democrats accountable for their maintenance of policing in this country just as we would hold Republicans accountable for such! Word. ✊🏼 Get the book at redemmas.org (within the U.S., or at an #independentbookstore near you in other countries). [And you should get mine, too! "Somewhere Through the Haze"] #DereckaPurnell #becomingabolitionists @astrahousebooks #policeabolition #policinginamerikkka #politicalduopoly #bookevent #redemmas #redemmasevents #baltimore #maryland #waverlybaltimore #SomewhereThroughTheHaze #poetry #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #Analysisthepoet
ROAD TRIP!! 😃 Like poetry? Like coffeehouse-type events? Like conscious discourse that you can really engage with? Like me? [LOL—I had to throw that in there!] Like Carla Christopher (@rev.carlachristopher), aka the Priestess? [And you really should!!!] Then slide on into York, PA Saturday evening at 7pm for “Show Up and Show Out for Justice” where I’ll have the great honor and enjoyment of doing a full set of poetry—and we get to do some Q&A/discussion to unpack it! 📜✊🏼 Plus there will be a bit of open mic! 🎙 So, if you are anywhere near York, Pennsylvania—I would say, within a couple hundred miles 😏—then you should join us. ☺️ #poetryshow #spokenword #poety #showupandshowoutforjustice #heidelberguccyork #yorkpa #welcoming #queerAF #CarlaChristopher #thePriestess #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #Analysisthepoet #somewherethroughthehaze #poetrybook #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum #justicepoetry #radicalLeft #poetrycoffeehouse #faithontheLeft #roadtrip @releasefaith
So, is it cheating if the bookseller who, along with his awesome team, sometimes posts authors' books in honor of their birthdays decides to post his own? 😎😏 #Analysis 🎂 #poetry #spokenword #birthdayhubris #SomewhereThroughTheHaze #redemmas #workercollective #independentbookstore #RedEmmasMotherEarthPoetryVibe #Waverly #Baltimore #readabook
In/near the Albany/Troy area of New York--or in driving range? Join me this Monday, April 25, 7pm doors as I hang out with my friend D. Colin (@dcolinpoet) at her awesome venue, Poetic Vibe (@poeticvibe518)! 😃 Let's do poems! Let's experience each other's art & soul! 🎤🤎 Come on through. 🙂 2952 6th Ave., Troy, NY 12180. #PoeticVibe #PoeticVibe518 #TroyNY #AlbanyNY @fishmarketproject #upstateNY #poetryopenmic #poetry #spokenword #DColin #Analysis #Analysisthepoet #thepoetknownasAnalysis #poetryfeature #poetryalbum: #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetrybook: #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #Baltimorepoets #Connecticutpoets #CTpoets
Let's roll away the stoned-out mindset that drugs us into docility. Let's resurrect our community! A couple thousand years later and we still haven't created the New Jerusalem? No wonder people look at church folk and say, "what's the use of 'em?" --from my poem "Better Friday" Let's do this, y'all. Peace and transformative power to you on this day when we are reminded to rise up! [The poem "Better Friday" is available on my album, "A Couple Thousand Years Later" (see Bandcamp link in bio), and in my book, "Somewhere Through the Haze" (direct from me or, in the U.S., @redemmas and, in many countries, lulu.com).] #Easter #Easter2022 #ResurrectionDay #betterfriday #betterfridaypoem #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #Analysisthepoet #ACoupleThousandYearasLater #poetryalbum #SomewhereThroughtheHaze #poetrybook #aLutacontinua #theStrugglecontinues #laLuchacontinua
Sunday in York, PA, 3pm: I get to do the poetry thing with my friend/fellow poet/fellow minister, Carla Christopher! Both of us would tell you that our dual disciplines/callings intersect in interesting, dynamic ways. Come on out for this double feature--and get on the mic yourself! [And no: this isn't anything bashing or heavy-handed. Carla and I don't roll like that.] If you're near #Baltimore/ #Philadelphia/ #Harrisburg, hope you can come through. 🙂🎤 P.S.--I don't know what "Beware Spain" means either; let's go find out! 😀 10 N. Beaver St., York PA 17401 #BewareSpain #poetryvenue #YorkPA #creativeyork #spokenword #poetry #CarlaChristopher #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #AnalysisThePoet #poetryandministry #preacherpoets #radicalLeft #artivism book: #SomewhereThroughTheHaze album: #ACoupleThousandYearsLater • Reposted from @rev.carlachristopher I am so excited! It's almost Sunday and time for LIVE POETRY!!! What better way to slay Sunday than with two pastor poets. Please come out friends, I miss you and want to hear your poems!
Let's go back to Maine--via Zoom, that is! 😃 I have the great honor of featuring again at Port Veritas (@poertveritaspoetry), Portland's awesome poetry venue hosted by the similarly awesome Maya Williams (@emmdubb16)! Tuesday, 8pm EDT [UTC-4]; for info and Zoom link, go to the link in the Port Veritas bio. Come join us; get on the mic list or just listen in! 🎤 #portveritas #portveritaspoetry #poetryopenmic #MayaWilliams #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #Analysisthepoet #Baltimorepoets #Connnecticutpoets #poetry #spokenword #poetryfeature #maine #portlandmaine #poetryopenmic #poetryonline #onlinepoetryvenue #poetryalbum --> #ACoupleThousandYearsLater (on @Bandcamp) #poetrybook --> #SomewhereThroughtheHaze (direct from me or @redemmas) #supportpoetry #supportindependentartists
So, what does this pic say to you? 😏 #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #Analysisthepoet #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum #SomewhereThroughTheHaze #poetrybook #Baltimorepoets
Last Friday I was cold chillin' in da spot: CJ's Place! Want to know more about this fun that you see? Better holla at CJ! @lovepoet18 😎 She's got happenings coming up. 😉 #CJsPlace #Baltimore #Maryland #poetry #music #soliloquy #jukejoint My book: #SomewhereThroughTheHaze Msg me or hit redemmas.org within the U.S.; lulu.com in many countries. 🙂
There's actually a lot going on in this pic! Two good friends & ministerial colleagues, both graduates of Howard University School of Divinity (@huschoolofdivinity), meet up for a nice vegan lunch at @natjuicebar to catch up and so that one can support the other and buy a few copies of his book "Somewhere Through the Haze" to give as holiday presents! 😃🤎 [You know, you should do the same thing he did, re: giving my book--or album--as a present! Book: from me or redemmas.org @redemmas; album "A Couple Thousand Years Later" from @bandcamp] #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #Analysisthepoet #SomewhereThroughTheHaze #poetrybook #poetry #ACoupleThousandYearsLater #poetryalbum #spokenword #RevPercyWilliams #HUSD @howard1867 #HUyouknow
Yeah!! 😎🎙😉😏 Next Wednesday, Dec. 8, 8PM [Yes--this flyer is fire!! 🔥 @alexalexanderphotography with the mastery of design & photo of @poetsimplysherri; @awesomeafrican1 with the photo of me.] #Analysis #thepoetknownasAnalysis #Analysisthepoet #busboysandpoets @busboysandpoets #BBP450K #poetryfeature #SimplySherri #simplypoeticentertainment #secondwednesdays #washingtonDC #dcpoetry #poetryalbum #ACoupleThousandYearsLater (available for download on @bandcamp) #poetrybook #SomewhereThroughTheHaze #blackpoets #blackarts #blackexcellence #baltimorepoets #poetry #spokenword
Check it: This Friday & Saturday, Aug 14-15, I'll be "in" Houston (virtually speaking) for "Bold Justice," a conference to explore how congregations can put faith into justice action during these times! I'll be doing a poetry keynote address on Fri. night, and will be part of a panel on Sat. afternoon. Join us online! Free registration! (see link in my bio for further details) @stpeterunited #boldjustice #boldjusticeconference #faithinaction #artivism #poetry #spokenword #justice #humanrights #somewherethroughthehaze #onearthasitisinheaven
It is my great honor to be the featured poet this Friday, Feb. 28, at one of the longest running and most beloved spoken word open mics in the history, I dare say, of the Mid-Atlantic region: Be Free Fridays! The honor is even greater knowing that, sadly, the series is drawing to a close, this month's installment being the penultimate, and I have been called upon to help send it off the right way. Much respect due to its founder, @lovethepoet, current hosts @shellysaysso and @blackchakra88, and all the team including @djharveydent, @traichic, @najahbnajah, et. al. ✊🏼❤ ease join me, if you're near (or can get here) and able to, and help us continue the #BeFreeFridays victory lap! [P.S.--I'll have my book, "Somewhere Through the Haze"!] #poetry #spokenword @eubieblakecenter #Baltimore #Maryland #Analysisthepoet #SomewhereThroughTheHaze