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Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Low Regard
19 Jul 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Yesterday's news was that Donald Trump wishes he hadn't hired Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to be Attorney General. Sessions, who happens to be a lawyer…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Mengele Medicine… Free
12 Jul 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raynmond Nat Turner This week our poet examines the links between the blankets settlers distributed among Native Americans and capitalism's reckless disregard of human,…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Poem For Zigi
05 Jul 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This week's offering from BAR's poet in residence was also published this week at Dissident Voice.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Look Away, Look Away....
28 Jun 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner For us living in the US, our poet reminds us, imperial atrocities are at worst collateral damage, and most often invisible. Only when they come into sight…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Circus on Capitalist Hill (Comey don’t play that…)
13 Jun 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Big doings this week up there between the War House and the Rogues Garden. Our poet reports on the show, clowns, cloven hooves and all.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
When I Grow Up…
30 May 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Ralph Pointer, husband of the recently deceased peoples lawyer and political prisoner Lynne Stewart is an accomplished freedom fighter in his own right. A…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Ra Was Right
24 May 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Some artists write poems and novels. Others paint and perform. Some build imaginary worlds you can immerse and lose yourself in. Some bring messages…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
2 Poems - About How and Why Some Things Work. And Some Others Don't
10 May 2017
By BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner In two works of poetry this week, Turner offers cogent observations on two phenomena, one that pretty much works as intended, and another enterprise that…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Big Lie Goliath
26 Apr 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner On the presence, and likely not the passing of Bill O'Reilly....
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
For the Planet and Humanity to Survive / can't make this up
19 Apr 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This week our poet in residence offers a brief meditations upon where and what sorts of bombing ought to be allowed, if any, and upon the lapse of White…