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Book: An Activist’s Poetry Anthology

Selected Poems for “Good Trouble”

     A poetry anthology collected from 25 contributors, with notes on and examples from mentors & writers who influenced them, these 77 poems, translations, and essays speak to the role & the power of poetry (and the Arts) to create awareness, foster empathy, and produce change to counter hate and ignorance.

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Book: Dancing in Dissent:
Poetry For Activism + CD: Reversing the Erased, Exhuming the Expunged

 

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Book: Dancing in Dissent:
Poetry For Activism 

Dancing in Dissent: Poetry For Activism
(Dolphin Calling Press, 2007)

Honorable Mention
2007 D.I.Y Book Contest
Honorable Mention
2007 London Book Festival
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     This poetry is written in the hopes that the country we love will return to our freedom roots by nonviolent means, by the tools of democracy, by the tool of nonelectric, paper ballot, by the tools of dissent so that all people on Turtle Island, an indigenous term for North America, citizen and immigrant, may have equal opportunity to live in peace and freedom with a living wage.
 
     Dancing in Dissent is an artivist¡¯s (artist and activist) collection of poetry resonating with the legacy of, speaking out against injustice and oppression. As you read this book as a community of peaceful dissent from a poet among poets know that corporate amerikkka is not pleased.

CD: Reversing the Erased, Exhuming the Expunged

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     Engineered by Dizzyorder and featuring San Diego musicians Bill Caballero, Musa Kaleem, and percussionist. Also featuring Tijuana guitar sensation Delfino this album of poetry blends Moreno politics with here and now moments of life that poets love to capture. The title poem honors and snap shots the power of San Diego poet Ant Black a member of Collective Purpose (1st & 3rd Thursdays at Evoke Dance Theater), The San Diego Slam Team, and Moreno’s poet’s pool in delivering the message of hope and dignity in local teen lockups.
 
     The musicians make Moreno’s message stronger and the poet amplifies the electricity of the music. A nice blend of collaboration, energy, chemistry, and respect. A nice blend of politics and snap shots of personality and poetics.
 
     Jim Moreno’s poem entitled Jillian is an artistic rendering of three dance concerts by San Diego’s incredible Jillian Chu. Written at three of Ms. Chu’s performances over a period of one year, Moreno’s rendition allows the reader to embody the grace, agility, and creativitiy of one of San Diego’s dancing treasures.
 
     A must hear: the collage poem featuring the late Jihyme Collins, Dizzyorder, Kenton Hundley and Moreno agitating activism at its best. This is what democracy sounds like. 
 
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Poems that Speak to Us:
Selected Poems of Steve Kowit

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     An anthology of 82 poems from 11 collections, spanning 40 years, featuring some of Steve Kowit’s best known work and several previously uncollected gems.

“Poetry that marvelously inhabits the adjoining rooms of the past and the present”
-Billy Collins former U.S. Poet Laureate

” How fine to have it in our hands… the lucid, voluptuous, exuberant poems of Steve Kowit
– Dorianne Laux on the publication of Cherish (2015)

Lasting Recovery Poetry Anthology:
By the Clients of Lasting Recovery
Volume One: 2016-2021

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        What you will find in the pages of this poetry anthology are the best of human beings who have come to Lasting Recovery being sick and tired of being sick and tired. The clients who wrote these poems have been on death’s door, hopeless, depressed, in pain, and out of answers for their addiction or their mental issues. They have found ways to write about pain and about hope.  As they write poems about what has been a seemingly hopeless condition of mind, body, and spirit, they have found a personal recovery that fits their whole being.

     I will constantly remind my poetry group members about how their poems are maps and compasses for a new way of living that comes out of the internal war of cravings and allergy; an affliction that has dictated that they live a life of misery. I remind them to keep their poems in a journal or notebook, or in a certain place that they can refer to…a mental, emotional, and spiritual tool kit.