Category: art
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Prayers to the Saints of Prison (excerpt) (duplicate)
The vowels are in solitary confinement The consonants are being beaten by sadistic dictionaries . . .
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New poetry chapbook! American Campesino (15 poems for a pandemic)
Just published by Editorial Xingao! American Campesino 15 poems for a pandemic | 15 poemas para una pandemia Poems by Rubén Rangel Cover art, “La huelguista,” by Pedro Rodríguez (Saddle-stapled chapbook: 28 pages; August 2022) ISBN: 978-0-9910346-0-4 EDITOR’S NOTE: Chicano poet and radical community & working class organizer, Rubén Rangel, delivers compact and crystalline poems…
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Prayers to the Saints of Prison (excerpt)
The vowels are in solitary confinement The consonants are being beaten by sadistic dictionaries . . .
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Paradise under construction | A note on “Building Socialism” RPB poetry anthology
All poets, good or bad, with or without anti-capitalist politics, weak or strong anti-racist and anti-war practices, believe in and want paradise on earth. Paradise has different names according to the language your heart speaks. Paradise is where the beloved and I pour our souls into each other. Paradise is where I harmonize with the…
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Before your name becomes a wound
Before your name becomes a wound on my tongue a scar on my heart a drowning in my lungs Before your name becomes revenge for a past that was never yours fists that crush the face of your lover the sky a crumpled man, a prisoner of oblivion I will hold on to you I…
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Call to poets to sign the “Open Letter to Worldwide Leaders”
Dear poet: Would you sign out letter. Please include your name and country in the email. Email your signature to: worldpoetrymovement@gmail.com All the best, Fernando Rendón (*) OPEN LETTER TO WORLDWIDE LEADERS In the name of the poets, writers, intellectuals and artists, and of all men and women that are in the cause of global peace,…
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International human rights day |Día internacional de los derechos humanos
Welcome to international human rights day: Human rights day is the day when you can be fully human, imperfect, immigrant, imbecilic, important, impotent to stop the U.S. disaster, immune to the past, immured with the possibilities of liberation, human liberation, in the new day. When indigenous indios are The People of the Earth The original human…
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Day of the Dead Word Festival | poems
Every day is the day of my dead 1. I harvest their suns and their pleasures erupt on my tongue My dead are troubled, always asking for more time on earth, Rebirth without redeath Love without betrayal Fire without water to burn alive They are not ghosts who inhabit the stairwells of my brain They…
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1492 return to the source (to make things right for humanity)
Teotihuacán I used to know how to fly I became terrestrial ever since Teotihuacán became mortal… I am emerging out of Teotihuacan, the place of goddesses and gods, that is, our original peoples * Every day is indigenous people’s day. Every year since 1492 has been filled with indigenous hope and then more resistance. Every day…
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Becoming Buddha | Vallecitos Mountain Refuge retreat (July 1993)
Miracles are hard work: because breathing, because calmness, because conscientiousness is required. That is how Vallecitos appeared in Oakland, where I lived. Seemingly out of nowhere, a letter arrived at our offices in Oakland offering a scholarship to one of us at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights to participate in the first-ever…
Welcome to La comuna: ART OF THE COMMUNE 