J. Otis Powell‽ (Remove filter)
Publishing Partnership
photo credit George Roberts
FY 2014 Grantees of the Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership Grant - Rain Taxi Review of Books, Minneapolis:
Rain Taxi and partner J. Otis Powell‽ will work together to publish a book of new literary work by Powell‽. A reading and discussion will be open to the public. Rain Taxi, a catalyst and cultivator of literary culture on the local as ...
Thursday 16th January 2014 5:50 pm
He Likes His Point Of View
painting: Janice Lee Porter
photo credit: Bill Cottman
He Likes His Point Of View
Adamas is known to be oppositional and augmentative
Agreeing with other points of view
Seem bland when there’s no definitive position
And perspective shifts like tsunami sands
Astigmatized visions rule this world and
Mark
Every tale of triumph with disgrace and in...
Tuesday 23rd October 2012 1:29 am
Without Regard
She sashays like she knows something
Like she knows nothing
About how things got this way
Like nothing has anything to do
With everything
She feels objectified by
Life
Which made her this way
And neglected by whoever should have cared
Unsatisfied
Unappreciated
She’s got those walking blues
Like walking pneumonia
Contagious
She spreads ...
Friday 12th October 2012 10:46 pm
Tongue Swallow
Tongue Swallow
This thang do me like
I don’t belong
This thang hang around
Like weather fronts and stall
Above me making it snow
Rain and storm
Making rivers
Lakes and seas rise up and rebel
Against land and everything
And everybody on it
This thang like climate change
Got so many names
We can’t point a finger at it
And identify it well enough
To get he...
Friday 5th October 2012 1:49 am
Heliograph (for Sun Ra)
photo credit Bill Cottman
Heliograph (for Sun Ra)
Earth found choices are few
When Earth isn’t home
Distortions are reflections of sadness
What sounds like chaos is fresh beginnings
Somewhere in collages of sound is un-imposed order
Organic beauty
Freedom between naiveté and ancient wisdom
Heliocentric realit...
Thursday 30th August 2012 6:08 pm
Tea Party In A Fox Hole
Photograph by Michael Nichols
Tea Party In A Fox Hole
I'm enrolled albeit fictitiously
In the School of Udhra
Committed at last to philosophy
Expressed by Udhrite School
Of poets who
"When loving die"
A Bedouin tradition and
It’s complaints
Of singleness and unrest
Of union and disunion
Dogon avatars carry
Duende through the ages
And I ...
Thursday 22nd March 2012 12:48 pm
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