Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
What did low Barr know?
17 Feb 2021
Liars, liars your loaded dice/tilted table theater’s on fire— But prosecutors and gas-lighting lawyers concur on Empire…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Black Lives Matter…
10 Feb 2021
B-B-B-Black Lives M-M-M-Matter… Unless you listening to loud music; shoveling snow; Or own a phone or car… B-B-B-Black Lives M-M-M-Matter…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Conspiracy theory 47
03 Feb 2021
It wasn’t led by lineage of Robert E. Lee— it was nuts demanding healthcare for free! It wasn’t a lynch mob, a putsch, or a coup— what good does divisive descriptions do?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
First 100 Daze: A ‘new’ dance craze
27 Jan 2021
Everybody’s wild ‘bout this ‘new’ dance craze— this lewd, crude dance called “The 1st 100 Daze…” Here come Ol’ Blak Schmo and Ladee Blu— listen up—they’re gonna teach it to you:
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
mashing the state— Kristallnacht-style
20 Jan 2021
Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots, overthrowing Black elected officials and Massacring those that VOTED for them— Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898;
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
This is what hypocrisy looks like…
13 Jan 2021
“It's like writing history with lightning.“ — Woodrow Wilson on Birth of A Nation
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Think…
06 Jan 2021
Think of peoples having the most tanks, the most drones, the most missiles, bombs, aircraft carriers, guns, ammo and night vision goggles
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Imagine: The Town Crier’s Cabinet Selections
16 Dec 2020
Cut plastic cuffs from imaginations— Dream larger in dire situations… IMAGINE every cook governing— every governor cooking up people puzzles—right livelihood alchemy…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
$election postmortem
10 Dec 2020
It was the Latino Vote… No, it was the Latinix vote! No, it was Black Women! No, it was LGBTQ+ Black Women! No, it was Red State Soccer Moms!
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
People Power (Or 30 min. men and women every 4 yrs?)
02 Dec 2020
The People earned a dancing in the streets day, horn honking, slogan shouting day—collective sigh/exhale of relief day…Yes, The People deserve