Contents


Opinion Editorials

Ask Joe

Illin n' Chillin

Kaponda

Jr's Hat


Departments

Resource and Development

Micro-economics
Poor Women writers and artists transition off of Welfare through micro-economics. A project of POOR MAGAZINE.

Investigative Journalism

Loaves vs. Lofts
Gourmet catering company objects to being relocated by high priced live work/lofts. (Part two in an ongoing series of special reports from "the inside" on gentrification) by Giovonna Willis-Barela staff writer, POOR Magazine

The Po' Poets Project

Ode to JFK Jr.

Notes from the inside
A Journal of Incarcerated Writers & Artists

Photography

REFRAMING THE OUTSIDE
by John M.
subject: Ken Moshesh

Accessing the Media
by The California Department of Corrections (CDoC).


Featured Artists

Richard At Work
Artist Ed Gould

Woman with Hammer
Artist Herbie






Image Courtesy of The Houzin Project/ published by POOR Press©2003



Housin' Prablem

Jack Tafari/Dignity Village
Friday, April 1, 2005;

Time dem a rough
JAH know de time getting' hard
When Rasta doan get fe live
inna no tenement yard
No, not a tenement yard
an' not a government yard
but get live inna de street
out upon de boulevard

Ah'm a tellin' yuh right now it is a hell of a ting
when yuh poor an' yuh Rasta fe get some housing
But it doan just Rasta yuh mus' andastand
plenty people got a housin' prablem inna Portland

Now Ah bu'n up de sensi, Ah'm a confess
Ah love mi sensimilla, it a pure niceness
Ah wrap it inna Rizla, bu'n it in mi chalwah
den Ah lift up mi hand dem an' give praises to JAH
But seem seh bu'nin' de herbs an freedom of religion
A go mash up yuh chance fe dem 'commodation

Ah'm a tellin' yuh right now it is a hell of a ting
when yuh poor an' yuh Rasta fe get some housing
But it doan jus' Rasta yuh mus' andastand
plenty people got a housin' prablem inna Portland

Between dem waitin' list at Housin' Authority
an' a nex' concern name Central City
dem got nuff poor people runnin' to an' fram
dem waan sign yuh up fe dem homeless program
waan come inna yuh life an' invade yuh space
an' put a case manager deh pon yuh case

Ah'm a tellin' yuh right now it is a hell of a ting
when yuh poor 'bout yah fe get some housing
No, it doan jus' Rasta yuh mus' andastand
plenty people got a housin' prablem inna Portland

An' it doan jus' Portland yuh mus' andastand
poor people got a housin' prablem all over disya land
people got it inna Canada an' fram dehso to Japan
an' inna disya time it is a global candishan



Featured PO' Poets:

To Close

Who’s skin care you? Who’s voice care you?

Poetas POBREZ/Po Poets Project respond to SB1070

Felicita Pedroza - Poverty Scholar Poet

Po Poetry from South Africa- the work of Tendai R Mwanaka

Po' Poetry From South Africa

Shifty Grifters

De Boricua Mami....

PNN Staff honors Michael Jackson

Boricua

Foster Child Criticism

Homeless and Denied

EDIFICE

OUTLANDER

The Eviction

FOR EHREN WATADA

THE DEPORTATION BLUES

THE LAVA OF MOLTEN HOPE

THE WAR THAT IS PEACE

Untitled

Invasive Species

Name

A Real Life Rocky

Uncle Gil

Po' Poets at Logan High School

Unwritten Law

Choke

Class Warfare

Lesser

Deep North

Loyal to None

GREAT WOMEN OF HISTORICAL SYSTEM RESISTANCE AND PROLIFIC

Sistas In Savage Society And Birth Deprivatory

Bling

To kill a Bird

Introdukshan

Housin' Prablem

In the house of iron doors

Ne' Griot

This is the House that Dope Built

The Political Climate.. The Poetryjournalism Series

Comal and Third

Puerto Rican Obituary

Almost a Child

It Ain’t Me

Like Father Like Son

Why - a poem in tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Economic and Poetic Justice

Charles Pitts

Paintbrush & a Pen.... A tribute To June Jordan and Frida Kahlo

Brown Broken Bodies

I'm Sorry

RESISTANCE AWARDS DINNER AND CEREMONY

STREET POETRY IN THE MISSION

The Poets and Scholars of Horace Mann Middle School Answer the question: Who is Poor?

PO'Poets '02 Vision

Faith and Forgiveness

Willie Warren

Phil Goldvarg

Isabel Estrada/ PoorNewsNetwork

Taisol Lopez

Peace NOT War: Poems

Tiger Walsh (Youth Po' Poets Project)

A Faye Hicks

Samuel Irving

Bao Xiong (Youth Po' Poets Project)

Idriss Stelley Tribute/ a young African-American Brother Murdered by Police

Drek

Tiny

Sacramento POOR Poets

Don Eli

Husayn Sayfuddiyn

the Youth Po Poets

The Plank

Jewnbug

Vlad Pogorelov

Leroy F. Moore Jr

Joseph Perryman

Anna Morrow

Ken Moshesh

Joseph Bolden

Gio Willis-Barela

KACEE

Dee

Dharma

It was a warm night...

Mari

This poem is in honor of mothers...