@ Sedona Center Park. More info TBA, such as a specific time.

@ the Orpheum (15 W. Aspen St), Flagstaff.
It’s the biggest event of all year! buy tickets!

From the M.A.D. Linguist in Prescott. From Studio 111 in Flagstaff. And from the Canyon Moon Theatre in Sedona, over twenty poetry slams have rocked this quietly beautiful community of Northern Arizona into a force to be reckoned with. “What [...]

Borderlands Poetry: A Reading Across the Wall. Time: 4-6pm. West end of the Naco/Naco border wall. I’ll be reading border poems with toda la fuerza que tengo.
Directions to Naco:
Take I-10 (East if you’re coming from Tucson/Phoenix, West if you’re coming from Texas)
Take the Benson exit #303 to Tombstone and Douglas
Pass through Benson and get on [...]

@ The Screening Room (127 E Congress), Tucson. Hosted by Gary Mex Glazner. I’ll be slamming. More information.

The Poetry Paint-Ball Slam
with MC Gary Mex Glazner
Poetry Paint Ball Slam is a fast paced event, where words replace paint and flying spit replaces splattering pigments, where the thawp of the ball becomes the twang of rhyme, [...]

When we militarize our borders, we militarize our imaginations.

This is a call for writers, for thinkers, for raza, for gringotes, for all of us. This Saturday, April 9, there will be a Binational Poetry Reading Across the Wall just outside of Naco. I believe that border issues along with water are the two most critical [...]

20s-era rental built of bent boards,
bad carpet and brick. A falling value,
south of downtown and neglect by landlords.
But at night, through the windows pass drafts and views,
I find him standing when I get up to piss.
His shoulders defeated, his open mouth
holds a yellow tongue in bubbling bliss,
his eyes unkempt. I ask if he’s ok.
There’s [...]

his bony chin playing the washboard
of his knuckles as he thinks me over.
He sends moths to burn in the lamp,
his hollow eyes fixed from the rocking
chair, his teeth, bleached monuments.
Dead men don’t have tongues,
some god keeps those for himself.
Forget the soul, it’s overrated:
you should see this god’s long cape
of squirming pronunciations.
I ask the dead man [...]

The Minuteman Project offically kicked off on Friday in Tombstone. It’s ironic and sad that this is what my home is receiving international recognition for. “Southern Arizona? Oh, ain’t that where the vigilantes were on the border a few years ago?” We’ll see about that:
From the Sierra Vista Herald, 26 March 2005 in an article [...]

Así ando ya.

The final scores of the semi-final, finally semitasticallitious:
Semi-Final Champion: Logan Phillips, #7 seed, 88.4
2nd: Sharkie Marado, #12 seed, 85.0
3rd: Aaron Johnson, #1 seed, 84.2
4th: Al Moyer, #3 seed, 82.0
5th: Ryan Guide, #14 seed, 80.1
6th: Kimmy Wilgus, #16 seed, 79.5
7th: Justin Powell, #8 seed, 79.4
8th: Sarah Knurr, #19 seed, 73.4
David Rogers “Doc” Luben, #9 [...]