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A few lines for the Poet Ojenke...
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
21 May 2025
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Poet Ojenke
Eric Priestley, in the 1990s, at the “Grotto Fountain (of democratic principles)” in the Maguire Gardens at L.A.’s Richard J. Riordan Central Library. (Courtesy of Erin Aubry Kaplan)

RIP: Rise In Poetics to Ra—
Sail on to Saturn ...
Greet The Ancestors after one
Masterful job on this mean ol'
Planet ... RIP: Rise In Poetics—
Dear Brother Poet Ojenke ...

Š 2025. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet; BAR's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC. You can Vote for his work at GoFundMe and PayPal.

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