Raymond Nat Turner, BAR’s poet-in-residence, pays homage to San Francisco’s shipyard artist JoeSam who died peacefully on June 1, 2024, surroun

"Dis-honest Broker" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence, recently performed at UpSurge!

 

Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, a martyr of zionist state genocidal violence, has left us with a tale of resistance and hope.

Salute to City of Angels’ son! He wrote, he wrote, he wrote And he wrote… Ramparts, The Progressive, The

Everybody’s wild ‘bout this ‘new’ dance craze— this lewd, crude dance called “The 1st 100 Daze…”

Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots, overthrowing Black elected officials and Massacring those that VOTED for them— 

“It's like writing history with lightning.“ — Woodrow Wilson on Birth of A Nation

Think of peoples having the most tanks, the most drones, the most missiles, bombs, aircraft carriers, 

It was the Latino Vote… No, it was the Latinix vote! No, it was Black Women! No, it was LGBTQ+ Black Women!