Po' Poets Project/Poetas POBRES Proyecto
Jovenes, Adultos, Ancianos, luchando para sobrevivir y prosperar apesar de la opression racista y economica, usando nuestras voces, nuestra poesia, nuestros cuentos, nuestra arte para crear cambio localmente y atravez del mundo.
Youth, Adults, Elders struggling to stay alive and thrive through race and class oppression using our voices, our poetry, our stories, our art, to create change for poor folks locally and globally.
Blossom
Let it blossom
A Grieving Mother June 16 2018
Words. What exactly are the purpose of words?
10 years 2007-2017 The Best of Krip-Hop Nation. Happy B. Day KHN
Press Release
January/2017
Krip-Hop Nation Tenth Anniversary CD Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Kayla Cooking Their Final Meal For the Community (Poem for Kayla Moore)
You smell that
But it’s not ready
Stolen Land / Hoarded Resources Redistribution, Decolonization & Community Reparations Tour Comes To LA with Black, Brown, Broke & Disabled Hip-Hop/Spoken Word Show
Everything’s Political
Poverty is politics
Racism is politics
Sexism is politics
Classism is politics
Capitalism, politics
Fuck those politics
Portrayals
PORTRAYALS
___________
"Jail-bird"
"Gang-banger"
"Meth-head"
"Predator"
"Wanna-be mob
Buster"
"Knife-swinging
Nutter"
"Deserved to get surrounded
By heat-holding cops"
"Deserved to get grounded
With 21 shots"
But
These are portrayals
They want you to know
These are portrayals
They want to show
Based on derogatory
Stereotypes
I’m the Same as you, I just Don’t have a roof
Side by Side
Pectoral Politricks/Notes from the Inside
Mr. Charles Chatman is a Plantation Prison Correspondent for POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE.
Editor's Note: As currently and formerly incarcerated poor and indigenous peoples in struggle and resistance with all plantation systems in Amerikkka, POOR Magazine stands in solidarity with all folks on the other side of the razor wire plantation. For more information about Mr. Chatman’s organizations, please write to him at
#P99062
P.O. Box 4490
Lancaster, CA 93539
Lady P
One Woman’s Hell… a gentrifier's lament
wrinkles and cellulite
rats and roaches
a boring Saturday night
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