Just poking around
I unscrewed a simile
and found a smile
with an eye inside.
to see what was in it,
and found a smile
with an eye inside.
posted by Joel Dias-Porter at 9:47 PM
Sunday, April 13, 2008
About Me
- Name: Joel Dias-Porter
- Location: Massive, Downswing, United States
Joel Dias-Porter (aka DJ Renegade) I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. I served in the US Air Force, and after leaving the service, became a professional DJ in the DC area. From 1994 through 1999 I competed in the National Poetry Slam, finishing as high as second place in the individual competition, and was the 1998 and 1999 Haiku Slam Champion. Places my poems have been published include Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Callaloo, Antioch Review, Red Brick Review, and the anthologies Love Poetry Out Loud, Meow: Spoken Word from the Black Cat, Short Fuse, Role Call, Def Poetry Jam, 360 Degrees of Black Poetry, Slam (The Book), Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapallooza, Poetry Nation, Beyond the Frontier, Spoken Word Revolution and Catch a Fire. I also edited and laid out The Black Rooster Social Inn, an anthology of poems and photos of visual art. In 1995, I received the Furious Flower "Emerging Poet Award" from James Madison University. Places I have performed include the Today Show, the documentary SlamNation, on BET, and in the feature film Slam. The father of a young son, I have a CD of jazz and poetry on Black Magi Music, entitled "LibationSong".
Links/Friends
- Cave Canem Homepage
- Roger Bonair-Agard
- Raina Leon
- Christina Springer
- Samantha Thornhill
- Treasure Williams
Links to my Poems
- Poems in 'Split this Rock' Issue
- '48 Hours After You Left'
- Some kid plaigarizing '48 Hours'
- Poems on 'Beltway' Site
- "Blues Pantoum"
- Poems on Seeingblack.com
- "Morna" in English and Kriolu
- 4 Cape Verdean Poems
- Clemente Poems
- Video of me Performing 'Silent Night'
- Article about a reading at CMU SEP04
- [A poem should curve]
- Wash. Post Article about 97 Nat. Slam
- DC City Paper Article about 96 Nat. Slam
- Kojo Nnamdi Spring Poetry Series show (Wed. May, 12, 2004 at 13:32)
Previous Posts
- Kinky Naps So I lie down, eyes closed. Sin wears ...
- One fringe benefit of being a poet is that even w...
- Reasons
- On The Long Way Home
- Warning
- What Was the Question Again?
- On the Calamity of Cobalt Sphericals
- For Frida
- Light Through the Blind
- For NaPoMo
1 Comments:
Joel - Great word play on "simile." I enjoy the poems of your I've seen. I'm a local DC poet, heard you read at Split This Rock too. Keep up the good writing. Peace, Joseph Ross
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