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• Poetry (Included in You Know What Im Sayin)
• Prose
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Sample Poetry:

"Look Out Langston" (sample)
~poem celebrating the poetry of Lanston Hughes

Look out Langston,
What you done.
Made them politicians run.
Martin read what you said,
And now things come undone.

Words, when written, if they's true,
Can get bell ring-a-dingin'

Sample Poetry:

"Los Mariachis" (sample)
~poem celebrating the character and artistry of Mariachis

Los Mariachis live for the serenátas:

“Las Mañanitas”
to the dulces madrecitas
and the virgin señoritas—
las prometidas,
y las noviecitas.

Sample Poetry:

"You Know What I'm Sayin'?" (sample)
~poem celebrating the spoken word

And “I have a dream,”
From Martin Luther King
In Washington,
Or at an Alabama bus stop
Preaching to the masses not for naught.
It’s Moses with the stones out on that mountaintop.

You see, it was the spoken word
that Moses heard
In the burning bush
That made him push
The pharaoh and the gentry
For freedom elementary, . . .

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Sample Prose:

"I, Too Speak of Rivers"<--click for full essay
~an essay on writing published in 2003

Human hearts often forget certain truths about humanity, just as the earth forgets the fact of waters in spring. All human hearts forget—to some degree—some truth, or many. . . .

Sample Newspaper Feature:

Cactus Conservatory<--click for full story
~a South Texas/regional piece published in 2002

Just off the beaten path in Alamo, Texas, lies a five-acre tract of land known as Sunderland’s Cactus Gardens, Inc., teeming with cacti and succulents reminiscent of thorny desert landscapes. But the couple that own and operate the place is no prickly pair. . . .

Sample Feature:

Christian Singer Debutante, Camey Thompson<--click for full article
~a powerful human interest/arts & culture story published in 2002

When Camey was born, her parents feared she would die since she could not nurse. So her biological father, Jesus, walked down a mountain barefooted carrying Camey a long distance to Guatemala City. At the hospital, doctors told him he lacked money and they lacked knowledge on such surgery, so the baby was going to die. . . .

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