Poetry

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mayday 2020
06 May 2020
(For Ferguson, Baltimore, Million Workers March, Arab Spring, Standing Rock, Occupy, Jackson Rising, Fight for Fifteen, Extinction Rebellion, #Me Too…)
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
It’s capitalism, baby… / 1 %-Funded Rally Actors / Solidarity
29 Apr 2020
It’s capitalism, baby…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
I had a nightmare (For friend/fellow Poet Genny Lim)
22 Apr 2020
I had a nightmare that down in Mississippi, its governor having his lips dripping with words of Social Darwinism, Herd immunity and Mengele Medicine,
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mengele Medicine: Death Panels of Boss Tweet and Pence
08 Apr 2020
STOP! No testing! No testing for the infection— big, big numbers could threaten the $election! STOP! No testing for us poor, us working-class—
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Flattening the curve on Capitalism?
01 Apr 2020
CEO from Boeing to CEO from Wells Fargo, heard by the flies on walls at Mar-a-Lago: “It’s their health or our economy— we get to choose…”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ruling-class Remedies
18 Mar 2020
If you’re feeling exceptionally feverish or feverishly exceptional pull a tight-fitting, cherry red MAGAT cap over your forehead and eyes. Tight
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Dem Big Negroz Ridin’ wit Emperor Stop’nFrisk
26 Feb 2020
Massa Mikul say, “Gib me de blak congressmen an’ mayors— Negroz who unerstan— ‘cause dey is all multimillionaires…” He say, “Big Negroz don’ feel lak dey's takin’ too big ob a risk
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Rush to judgement?
12 Feb 2020
Ain’t it good to know that up’s still down; bad’s still good; black’s white; Slavers still heroes—And the Drone Ranger received a Peace Prize?
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Return of the $electable Dead
04 Feb 2020
A Leni Riefenstahl film Written by Dr. Goebbels Produced by the DNC— Set in summer in Milwaukee: “Return of the $electable Dead.” A
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
They came 4 Moms 4 Housing
29 Jan 2020
Storming “ThTown’s” morning dew like badged vermin Creeping from bent mist morning light, just before five Barking cold commands in Pig Latin—or German?