Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Raytheon’s Raven caws “War—Evermore!” Not wind beneath Negroz wings…
29 Sep 2021
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Schmo Munchkin v. Ida
22 Sep 2021
Schmo Munchkin v. Ida Ida: Hello, Schmo… Munchkin:
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