Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Preview #19, Journal of Pan African Studies




Preview #19, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies

Guest Editor, Marvin X


Tony Medina, Washington DC

Slam-A-Lot

Shit Slam Squat & Pee Slam Bacon & Eggs Slam Ham on Rye Slam Shit onShinola Slam Spit & Drool Slam Vomit Slam Back Alley Wino Piss SlamMaggots Crawling Out An Open Skull Slam Backstabbing Slam Eviction SlamAss on Pavement Slam Prescription Slam Hungry Man Slam Starvation SlamBombs Bursting in Air Slam Dead Roach in Spaghetti Slam DumbMotherfuckers Can’t Think for Self Slam Reading is Detrimental Slam Cain& Able Slam Gentrification Slam Globalization Slam Hull of aSlaveship Slam Middle Passage Slam Ku Klux Klan Slam Goosestep HeilHitler Nazi Slam Gas Chamber Slam Sodomy Slam Full Frontal Lobotomy SlamOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Slam I Don’t Give a Damn Slam GenocideSlam Smallpox in Blankets for Indians Slam Thanksgiving Day SlamResurrection Slam Dead Cock Forklift Viagra Slam Stank Ho Slam AuctionBlock Slam Kill Whitey Slam Maroon Slam Macheteros Slam Boukman SlamToussant L’Oveture Slam Jean Jacques Dessaline Slam Che Slam Fidel SlamNat Turner Slam John Brown Slam Sandinista Slam Al Queda Slam Weapons ofMass Destruction Slam HIV Slam AIDS Slam Anthrax Slam Ebola Soup SlamUN Troops Slam Avian Flu Slam Agent Orange Slam Muscatel Slam Mad DogSlam Ripple Slam Gut Bucket Blues Slam Rot Gut slam Cocaine Slam CrackSlam Crystal Meth Slam Preemptive Slam Slam National Security SlamDefense Department Manufacture AIDS Slam Bush Administration Bomb theWorld Trade Center & the Pentagon to Go to War with the Middle East& Snatch Up Oil Wells & Undermine the Euro Slam Your Mother’s aTwo-Face Slam Poppa Was a Rolling Stone Slam 40 Acres & a Mule SlamReparations Slam Zionism Slam Gaza Strip Slam Infitada Slam SuicideBomber Slam Stolen Land Slam Son of Sam Slam I Am What I Yam Slam GreenEggs & Ham Slam High Blood Pressure Slam Sugar Slam Booger SlamBling Bling Slam Sing Sing Slam Sick & Demented Slam Jimmy SuperflySnucka Slam Spanish Fly Slam Spanish Inquisition Slam Conquistador SlamChristopher Columbus Slam Cuttie Sark Slam Buffalo Soldier Slam DredlockRasta Slam Philistine Slam Afro Sheen Slam Colgate & Listerine SlamRobin Island Slam Apartheid Slam Free Winnie Mandela Slam Negroes withGuns Slam Pedophile Priests & Mean Nuns with Big Rulers Slam JamesBrown Don’t Want None Won’t Be None Slam We Bombed in Baghdad Slam IraqCradle of Civilization Reduced to Barney & Betty Rubble SlamIsraelis Genociding Palestinians Slam Scentless Bombs Slam Wailing WallSlam Tears for Fears Slam Blood for Oil Slam Human Cargo Slam NY LifeSlave Insurance Slam Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Globalization Slam GoreeIsland Slam Elmira Slave Castle Slam Exxon Mobile Slam Watergate SlamIran Contra Slam Guatemalan Genocide Slam Forced Migration Slam MediaManipulation Slam Embedded Journalists Slam Church & State SlamState & Corporate Slam Eleanor Bumpers Slam Underdevelopment SlamInternment Camp Slam Concentration Camp Slam Reservation Blues SlamWhites Only Slam COINTELPRO Slam FBI Slam CIA Slam Ton Ton Macoute SlamDas Boot Slam Il Duce Slam Antonio Gramsci Slam Skull & CrossbonesIlluminati Slam Kiss My Black Ass Slam Bitch Better Have My Money SlamPunks Jump Up to Get Beat Down Slam Capitalism & Christianity SlamThe Marriage of Hell & Hell Slam Abu Grab Slam Torture Slam RightWing Reactionary Sociopath Slam Population Control Slam War Crimes Slam IAin’t Gonna Study War No More Slam O Slam My Best Friend Gayle SlamStedman & I Slam O Sam I Am Slam Spam Slam Astispumante Slam Hey,You Got Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter Broke Back Mountain SlamSperm Juleps Slam Chunky Phlegm Slam Taxation without RepresentationSlam Santeria Slam Shango Elegba Slam Crayola Slam Payola Slam TheGrassy Knoll Slam The Blown Out Skull of Jack Kennedy Slam EthnicCleansing Slam Police Brutality Slam All-White Juries Exonerating WhiteCops Slam Coup de tat Slam Regime Change Slam Bitter Fruit Slam BlackReconstruction Slam Bay of Pigs Slam Anti-American Activities SlamCollateral Damage Slam Electric Chair Slam Shock & Awe Slam ScarTissue Slam Eczema Slam INS Slam Accelerated Sharing Slam World BankSlam IMF Slam Another World is Possible Slam Planetary Protest AgainstWar Slam DeBeers Diamond Miners Slam A Piece of the Action Slam PetiteBourgeois Slam Genetic Engineering Slam Petro Dollars Slam Idi Amin DadaSlam Mobutu Slam Shanty Town Slam The G-8 Slam Riot Gear SlamPrivatization Slam Neo-con Slam Neo-liberalism Slam Driving Down WagesSlam Tax Write-Off for Corporations Slam Good Governance Slam Obey theIMF Slam Sweatshop Slam Say Hello to My Little Friend Slam CarpetBagging Slam Carpet Bombing Slam Carpet Cleaning Slam Carpet CuttingSlam Carpet Burns Slam Carpet Munching Slam Carpe Diem Slam CorporateTakeover Slam Corpus Christi Slam Carpal Tunnel Slam Constitutions ThatStipulate Only Whites Are Human Beings Slam WTO Slam Extra Virgin OliveOil Slam Sugarless Slam Fat-free Slam Anorexic Slam Bulimic SlamRegurgitation Slam Vomiting on the Side of a Ship Slam Tedious ExtendedMetaphor Slam Everything in This Motherfucker but the Kitchen Sink SlamThe Kitchen Sink Slam

Tony Medina, two-time winner of the Paterson Prize, is the author of fifteen books, including Committed to Breathing; Follow-up Letters to Santa from Kids who Never Got a Response; I and I, Bob Marley; My Old Man Was Always on the Lam; Broke on Ice; and An Onion of Wars. Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University, Medina’spoetry, fiction and essays appear in over ninety anthologies andpublications.

Greg Carr, Washington DC


Poem # 1:

A Poem for Stayers

I want to stay
Squat, full, immense
Full of the broad wealth of age and joy and
Ripe, Sweet Life.

I want to leak
All over the space I occupy
Squishy, syrupy flood
Oozing out of every pore and
Onto everything in sight
Liquid, solid
Life

I want to be the thing you love
More than you love yourself

So that when you are gone
I am still here
Your memory stuck to me and
Leaving the stain
Deeply on the land



Poem # 2: Do Not Concede

Your self
Exists
Do Not Concede it
Then tune your ear
To hear
Your self
Over the din
Under the chorus
Around the edges
Just outside the point of focus

Unfix your sight
Do not concede the
Frame of Reference
Regain your perspective
By blurring the one you inherited
From your Masters
Do Not Concede
Your self

The familiar
Is not the thing you have been forced
To accommodate
Do Not Concede It
To the practical, sensible thing
Listen to your Self
It is old beyond age
And longer than length
It is your lasting, essential tie
To God

Do Not Concede


--Greg Carr

Greg E. Carr, Ph.D., JD
Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Chair, Department of Afro-American Studies
Founder's Library, Room 318
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059


November 15, Deadline for Submissions

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