Affrilachian Poet, Hip-Hop Head, and Afro-Punk Mitchell L. H. Douglas is the author of Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem, a collection of persona poetry written in the voice of late soul legend Donny Hathaway. A Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor of PLUCK!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, Douglas' second poetry collection, \blak\ \al-fə bet\, will be published by Persea Books in February 2013.
You can be my friend if...
you believe art is not only beautiful but an agent of change: socially & spiritually.
Bad Brains
Parliament/Funkadelic
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Mos Def
Little Brother
The Clash
X
Germs
Slint
Deftones
Rage Against the Machine
Radiohead
Favorite movies:
The Decline of Western Civilization
Malcolm X
Do the Right Thing
American History X
Gimme Shelter
Favorite books:
Dien Cai Dau (Yusef Komunyakaa)
Head Off & Split (Nikky Finney)
Rose (Li-Young Lee)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (Langston Hughes)
The Bridegroom (Ha Jin)
Brutal Imagination (Cornelius Eady)
Lunch Poems (Frank O'Hara)
Native Guard (Natasha Trethewey)
Got the "Cooling Board" and I am going to read it this week. You're teaching at IUPUI right? When I first saw your name on AP it didn't click in my head until now! DUH!!!!
We'll be playing the punk rock night show at the Melody Inn on Feb 15th! It's going to be badass, and our first show in indy, so please come check us out!
<3
Pam - your vocalist
The Revenge of Ricky Williams
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We'll be playing the punk rock night show at the Melody Inn on Feb 15th! It's going to be badass, and our first show in indy, so please come check us out!
<3
Pam - your vocalist
The Revenge of Ricky Williams