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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 ...

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Eric LorbererJ. Otis Powell‽MSAB grantRain Taxi

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...

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Without Regard

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 ...

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J. Otis Powell‽self-determinationwalking blueswalking pneumonia

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...

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Duke Ellington. Amiri BarakaFred MotenJ. Otis Powell‽This thangTongue SwallowTransbluesency

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...

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black holesgladiolasHeliographJ. Otis Powell‽jazzspace is the placeSun Raunimposed order

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 ...

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Fox HoleJ. Otis Powell‽Love is hippopotamusLove with ugly in itMichael NicholsTea Party

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