Now Listing:

Things I'd like to maybe start a Kickstarter for:

A big bed of sesame seeds build in a storefront window, whose window is covered in reflective paper, in which I can lay down to rest my wear bones for a bit and napsnack my way back out into the world cocoon style.
Visa fees for every Muslim in the world to come to the US mostly because it would be way more peaceful likely although we'd have to have a conversation about the necessity of bacon.
Someone who is paid CEO-level salary + great bennies just to follow me around (union workday hours is cool) and run my feet and legs and shoulders and hands and back and basically all of my body parts as needed like always.
Honeybee husbandry.
Mandatory, heavily stipended coursework for the entire western world on gaining an understanding of, and the language for, a real conversation on race, class, culture, gender, history, and the end of capital. With cookies and juice.
That orgasm machine from that Woody Allen movie from when he made funny movies before he was a known sexual predator. I don't know that I need to raise funds for mass production. I basically just need one and a backup.
One more orgasm machine to rent-out by the minute because then I'd never have to crowdfund anything ever again.
An American Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Televised live with social media access points ala periscope, twitter, etc.
Basically just more cats.

Now Playing:

Portland, Ore. 16.9.16 :: Beneath the fractured light of a harvest moon eclipse, black|bodies descend into PICA's Time Based Art Festival and radiate poetry/light.

Now Listening:

Now Gramming:

A bit of poetry/clay performance for my student @phlgem Now in progress at #TIP18!

What up Desert! Here for the wildout. Let’s do this. ✊🏾

Hey! Some groovy things happened these past many days! I had a great interview with Aaron Scott for State of Wonder (OPB/NPR); a great reading last weekend at Lan Su Chinese Garden — thanks Miriam for coming to hang and play! My cat, Lupe, just stays cute. Diane Williams came to @reedcollege and gave a fantastic talk and reading then we got to have a sweet dinner with @rockpdx. Roland Dahwen Wu and I had a beautiful screening of the final FIELD THEORIES remix alongside @lunch_poems’ and Kalimah Abioto’s beautiful short films. I even got a sneak peek into @mayavivas’s soon-coming new art gallery, @oriartgallery. Good times! Liking forward to the the new week in the sun.

Just a pic of my office. With no cat in it. Basically: I really wish I’d brought Curtis to work today. It’s a perfect Curtis work day. But without Curtis. So that’s where we are. CURTIS!!

tfw your student is working on la loteria and you pull for them the right card...then flip it to find it’s maybe for you too.✨🔎🔮🤷🏾‍♀️

Now Tweeting:

“The closest thing to performance is quantum physics/ which is magic/ which is performance/ which is quantum physics... -violet harlo @TIP18
about a day ago
A bit of poetry/clay performance for my student phlgem Now in progress at #TIP18! @ University… https://t.co/ukn8Kjpwd2
about a day ago
NP - videopoem made by @Vanessid out of "13" - https://t.co/qIufWQ9Sq1 - on "Refuse to Forget: Bi & Queer Women's Autobiographies" @ #TIP18!
about a day ago
NP: shown at panel: "Refuse to Forget: Bi & Queer Women's Autobiographies" https://t.co/zutYFF2KUK #TIP18
about a day ago
Oh hai — the ability to be late even to being late is hard won. I’m keeping it.
about a day ago

Lighting up the night on Broadway!

What a great night.

January 25, 2016

Thanks to Poets on Broadway, Kevin Craft, David Biespiel, and the folks at Antoinette Hatfield Hall--and EVERYONE who came out tonight! What fun. What good times. What great drinks. What poetry. #swoon