Poet’s Statement
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If the words transport you, pull you up out of yourself, remind you, connect

you to others, create in you a longing-then I have succeeded as a poet.

Beauty, Ideas, Transcendence-isnt this the point? I think its possible for

people to understand other people who are nothing like their people.

I think poetry can disrupt a train of thought, a pre-supposing, a habit of

assumption. Then too, poetry can be a ceremony, it can call down the

ancestors, raise up spirits, heal wounds even. It is all this and more that I am

about in my art. My storytelling, my poetry, my prancing upon a stage, and

my little flashing light films are all interruptions designed to connect all the

​ dots, even the dots you weren’t looking for…