tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542928.post3925174525087904575..comments2024-01-06T05:28:04.675-08:00Comments on DJ Renegade (On the Ones and Twos): Lost the hand but got a poem. (Updated)Joel Dias-Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07078260711837933351noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542928.post-38717504532057296262021-10-18T22:49:08.076-07:002021-10-18T22:49:08.076-07:00Great readiingGreat readiingKennethhttps://www.kennethburton.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542928.post-6105783328844324342012-06-05T18:04:21.199-07:002012-06-05T18:04:21.199-07:00Yo, that's a very cool story. The Best Buy thi...Yo, that's a very cool story. The Best Buy thing is why I write, to touch someone like that.Joel Dias-Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07078260711837933351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542928.post-62390827834671296012012-06-04T08:04:55.194-07:002012-06-04T08:04:55.194-07:00I think the only experience that comes close is my...I think the only experience that comes close is my poem "The Champ" which I wrote for my brother, Drew, and niece, Anicia (she was a year-old when I wrote it). <br /><br />It got published in Little Patuxent Review's Social Justice Issue. I've read that poem at the Stonecoast MFA program and had fellow students come up afterwards giving me insight into the poem I hadn't consider when I was writing and revising (thanks to Joy Harjo and Tim Seibles for helping me take the poem much further!). <br /><br />A woman liked how my brother, who had gone through it with my parents, gets the reward of my niece not only saying his name first but also clinging to him as her hero. <br /><br />I'm honored whenever I read the poem and people tell me something new about the poem. I was in Best Buy and a cashier, who was at the Little Patuxent Reading, said: "Oboo Drew, Oboo Drew." That was really cool!<br /><br />It's being considered for a Pushcart nomination. I'm honored by that.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07944679890331516344noreply@blogger.com