I am grateful for these sources of inspiration and members of my supporting cast.

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ELOQUENCE
First published by Jose “Papo” Santiago on
     www.chicagolatinperformers.com.

POETRY, SAY WHAT
Featured Poet for Contemporary Issues in Poetry, October 2001: Darlene E. Erickson, Ph.D., Professor, Division of English, Master Teacher in the Humanities; Ohio Dominican University, Columbus. Author of Illusion is More Precise than Precision: The Poetry of Marianne Moore.

Langston Hughes
Darius Lovehall from the movie Love Jones
Zora Neale Hurston
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
A Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare
If by Rudyard Kipling
If I Ruled The World by Nas featuring Lauryn Hill
The Bible (KJV)

BABA RECEIVES PERMISSION TO SPEAK
Featured Poet, Ohio Dominican University.

“Dre,” Andre Chappelle Ross, Columbus, Ohio

ONLY YOU KNOW
Featured Poet, Ohio Dominican University.

RollingOut Magazine, October 30, 2002.

ASANTE
Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield

Aunt Sadie’s Café & Catering, Lansing, IL
Blueberry Field Pancake House & Restaurant, South Holland, IL
Shoney’s Restaurant Company, Nashville, TN
St. Martin’s Restaurant, Markham, IL

SLIDE SHOW
Myrtle Beach 2003

FANTA’S SKY
Sky over Chicago from Church Street in the Beverly/Morgan Park neighborhood.

GLORIOUS EVENING
Featured Poet, Ohio Dominican University.

LOVE ROLLERCOASTER’S CHILD
Love Rollercoaster by Ohio Players

MOTHERLY
For momma, Miss Octavia Elaine Binder.

I WON’T HURT YOU, IN A WAY THAT I KNOW WILL
Ode to Princess Di (Kibibi Zuri)

FEAR OF GOD
Proverbs 1:7; 13:24; 22:15; 23:13–14; 29:15.

BASIC NEEDS AND THE “N” WORD
Featured Poet, Ohio Dominican University.

Why We Can’t Wait, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Blessings one has,
Not kept, but passed,
Will always last.