Category: Poetry

Two Bay Area artists come together to bring you a poem and graphic on the roots of American gang banging.

A birthday letter for Young Ghost who was not only "The Beast from The East", but you could tell by the way people talk about him that their will never be another one like him. On this day he would of turned 21 years old. Daniel aka Ookie writes a letter wishing him a happy birthday.

Piano rifts, synths, lovely baselines, and insights on San Jose life, all through the eyes of a true hip hop storyteller.

Lorenz Mazon Dumuk is a San Jose writer and community organizer. He performs his poem "Fat" from his book Ay Nako;Writing Through The Struggle, which deals with the reality of being a man and dealing with body issues but more or so, self love issues. A poem he hesitated to share, but as he says during his interview, "if you write it, you should share it".

Bay Area Poet/Activist Yosimar Reyes shares a poem titled Dicen De Mí on Columbus Day.

Simon's poem explores the economy in which we are currently in, many went homeless, more are in a worst economic state, but also many profited from all this.

At the age of 23, Terisa Tinei Siagatonu has already established herself as a poet, spoken word artist, and arts educator. Born and rooted in the Bay Area, her emergence into the spoken word world as a queer Samoan womyn and activist has granted her the opportunities to perform on stages. This video is produced by Street Soldiers Radio.

J-Walk is a young Latino artist who has music in his vains. All types of musical influences which is recognized in his lyrics and voice. While nothing stands in front of him and his crew Baylingual to reach their fullest potential in this music game while bringing the truth with some rhythm.

A poem reflecting on how the author felt high school was only preparing him to be a worker not an owner.