| Black Agenda Report

BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
The old playbook
18 Dec 2019
“The hatred of Tsarism was directed particularly against the Jews.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Black Friday Blues
11 Dec 2019
Here come Black Friday, but I wanna a Green New Deal Here come Black Friday, but I wanna a Green New Deal With a whole lotta street heat just to keep it real…
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Boss Tweet’s Blitzkrieg
04 Dec 2019
I wake in a cold sweat, scrambling for the internet— What salvoes were let loose while we slept? How badly Bombed is the safety net? What rights are left?
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
count ALL votes
27 Nov 2019
POW…POW…POW…POW… My leaders were voted out of office with hot lead ballots: red runoffs in driveways, beds, ballroom floors, on balconies,
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
A War Criminal Chastises Children
20 Nov 2019
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.”
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Mentors and me
13 Nov 2019
Standing out in the cold shivering, shoveling white bean soup in my mouth, A mentor appears, two assistants in tow. Mind butcher shop sharp with a
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
In Langston’s Home
06 Nov 2019
In Langston’s home Harlem You do as Langston Did Love the Jazz, the Blues, Words, acts, pages and stages In Langston’s home Harlem
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
I Celebrate Red Roses of Resistance
30 Oct 2019
San Francisco singer sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, ringlets trickling down ‘round Angelic paper bag brown face, like sweat gathering on her glass of white wine.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Neo-Con Chippendales
23 Oct 2019
White phosphorus Pony, nuclear bumps and grinds; sulfur stench shimmies, twisted Third Reich minds— bending, ‘amending’ yellowed, ragged redacted pages
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
case of climate catastrophe?
16 Oct 2019
frantic footprints are framed on white streets where the temperature suddenly dropped from 83 to 13