On the beach-
this book of nature poems
opens me.
Above the red lips
below the black brows-
the green of her eyes.
On this brick wall,
a dead kid's name-
still dripping.
Some cuts from my CD and some random Love Poems
About Me
- Joel Dias-Porter
- Brigantine, New Jersey, United States
- (aka DJ Renegade) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, and is a former professional DJ in the DC area. From 1994- 1999 I competed in the National Poetry Slam, finishing as high as second place in the individual competition, and was the 1998 and 99 Haiku Slam Champion. Places my poems have been published include Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Callaloo, Antioch Review, Red Brick Review, Beltway Quarterly and the anthologies Gathering Ground, 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, Catch a Fire, and 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. Performances include the Today Show, the documentary SlamNation, on BET, and in the feature film Slam. A Cave Canem fellow and the father of a young son, I have a CD of jazz and poetry on Black Magi Music, entitled "LibationSong".
Links to my Poems
- Audio of 'Saturday Poem' from CD w/band.
- More poems in Beltway
- Poems in 'Split this Rock' Issue
- 4 cuts from my CD
- '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)
Links/Friends
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