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Your prose is powerful. I am wondering if you have any examples that speak to the several other dimensions of black culture not present in the piece above.

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Hometown:: Hawthorne, CA

Stage or Page or Both: Both

About Me:: I'm one half of the duo FreedomINFINITE and together with my brother, Deshone, I've been writing poetry for about eight years. As an individual poet, my work has been published, and performed all over Los Angeles. I was a guest lecturer for many Upward Bound events, and I recited my poetry for the 2005 Western Speech and Communications Conference in San Francisco, where my work was critiqued by Communications faculty from across the country.

Website:: http://www.myspace.com/freedominfinite

Favorite Poet or Author:: Wow, too many to name. So I'll go with the top ten. 1. Edgar Allen Poe. 2. H.P. Lovecraft. 3. Saul Williams. 4. Miguel Pinero. 5. Gary Mex Glazner. 6. Khalil Gibran. 7. Allen Ginsberg. 8. Gary Snyder. 9. Amiri Baraka. 10. Nikki Giovanni.

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FreedomINFINITE on Inidiefeed performance poetry!

My crew, FreedomINFINITE, is on Indiefeed. http://performancepoetry.indiefeed.com. We've three pieces on the site already and insha'Allah (God willing), we'll have a fourth up sometime in the coming months. Tell Mongo, the host, Obi sent ya!

Posted on March 1, 2008 at 11:39am —

Catfish Man

Catfish Man

He boarded the 94 bus as he always did

In the morning. Hair was covered in a

Dingy skill cap that was old and worn out.

The Raiders logo had fallen off and there

Was a h

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Posted on February 5, 2008 at 3:02am — 3 Comments

Products and Commodities.

Disclaimer: This poem employs frequent and liberal use of the dreaded "N-word." It has an important message, but I feel as though I should warn you first. Viewer discretion is advised.

Products and Commodities

Racism, the predication of

decisions and policies on

considerations of race, for

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Posted on February 5, 2008 at 1:59am — 1 Comment

Defiance

My vision fades . . .

. . . blurs and clouds

transport me to a time

when I rocked

microphones for

live crowds, sometimes

twice in one night,

collecting accolades

as if they were shimmering

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Posted on February 5, 2008 at 1:43am — 4 Comments

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At 1:19am on March 19, 2008, Deshone said…: Sup Baby!
Aint nuttin, just trying to make a dollar outta fit-teen. Got some studio time, working on the joint about my son. Tryin to make it happen, speaking of joints whenever you wanna get with that piece we was just doin, ya know, whenever you got time. Its your world playa!

-D

At 10:25am on March 1, 2008, Obi Adisa Asad said…: My crew, FreedomINFINITE, is on Indiefeed. http://performancepoetry.indiefeed.com. We've three pieces on the site already and insha'Allah (God willing), we'll have a fourth up sometime in the coming months. Tell Mongo, the host, Obi sent ya!

At 6:32am on February 27, 2008, Carole Eddington said…: It's great meeting you!!!

Carole

At 4:42pm on February 11, 2008, Obi Adisa Asad said…: Feburary 27 on Indiefeed Performance Poetry, you can hear my poetry group. We already have two poems listed on the site and they're great. Hit me up for more information.