Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For My Friend Keasley (Autumn and E-Crew, 25/22)
15 Sep 2021
For My Friend Keasley (Autumn and E-Crew, 25/22) I. In my mind—and sometimes sub-vocally—I say his name almost every day.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bird, strings, Big Chief: 100: Harlem (For Charlie Parker/Donald Harrison/Harlem Symphony Orchestra)
08 Sep 2021
Bird, strings, Big Chief: 100: Harlem (For Charlie Parker/Donald Harrison/Harlem Symphony Orchestra) Gathering witnesses bearing beautiful collisions—
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ol’ Red Jack Hirschman: He Weaponized Words
01 Sep 2021
Ol’ Red Jack Hirschman: He Weaponized Words “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” —Percy Bysshe Shelly I. Death comes in 3s they say. So maybe 6
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Summer of Soul/Summer of Struggle…
25 Aug 2021
BAR's poet in residence pays tribute to fallen Black Panther Party comrades. Chalk silhouettes, bullet-violated bodies of Bunchy and John—UCLA, cold Campbell Hall
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Peoples’ Pips: Leaving on that Midnight Train to GA…
18 Aug 2021
BAR's poet in residence composes a lyrical and musical tribute to Glen Ford. …He’s leaving (Leaving) On that Midnight Train To Georgia
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Our ‘democracy’
23 Jul 2021
Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne- caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who Pay nothing for water washing their waste to sewage
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Pigment of your Imagination: Black magic mascots, props and sops?
15 Jul 2021
Could the pigment of your imagination cause Black magic mascots, props, sops— Black faces in high places— to short-circuit electrical gray spaces?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
A known known…
08 Jul 2021
“…there are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns—things we do not know we know…” -- an infamous War Criminal
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Twerkers of the World you might…(Or when they go low we get high?)
01 Jul 2021
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Town Crier’s Big Tooth Fund (For Drs. Rosenthal, Sapir and Ferdowsi)
23 Jun 2021
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…” —Karl Marx