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Someone was speaking from the Other Side Saying The Obvious Things---Everybody Listen Now

sesshu wrote 4 hours ago: "Over there was where kids used to have their adventures, where the radio tower was blinking ou … more →

Tags: Experimental Writing, hybrid genres, innovative writing, los angeles literature, multicultural literature, Post-modern-literature, Sesshu Foster, urban literature, Urban Poetry

ON FUTURISM by Vladimir Mayakovsky

sesshu wrote 16 hours ago: (1922) ————————————— … more →

Tags: Poetry, Experimental Writing, innovative writing, urban literature, Urban Poetry, hybrid genres, multicultural literature

Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918 silent movie Барышня и Хулиган ("Baryshnya i khuligan") part 1/4

sesshu wrote 4 days ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKeYvv65EEw&feature=related http://www.amazon.com/Listen-Early-Po … more →

Tags: Poetry, Experimental Writing, innovative writing, urban literature, Urban Poetry, hybrid genres, multicultural literature

Jayne Cortez is New York City!

sesshu wrote 4 days ago: < http://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Advance-Nowhere-High-Books/dp/1852424222/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 … more →

Tags: Experimental Writing, hybrid genres, innovative writing, multicultural literature, Poetry, Post-modern-literature, small press poetry, urban literature, Urban Poetry

good morning mayakovsky!

sesshu wrote 4 days ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJqSNEx4_Fg&feature=related good morning … more →

Tags: Poetry, urban literature, Urban Poetry

car haiku #10

sesshu wrote 4 days ago: jacaranda bloomed left purple halos of car parkings on asphalt —by Mike Willard … more →

Tags: innovative writing, multicultural literature, Poetry, urban literature, Urban Poetry

Recipie for college: art projects, games and field trips

Saya wrote 6 days ago: Jasmine asked me a couple of weeks ago if I could help her write an essay for a high school applicat … more →

Tags: Application, Chicago, Coffeehouse, College, Education, Englewood, Essay, High School, Jupiter Outpost

Watching an OTR Reno. 2 comments

urbanqueer wrote 6 days ago: A good friend of mine recently purchased an amazing building on Elm Street in Cincinnati’s his … more →

Tags: Historic Preservation, Over the Rhine, Renovation

car haikus #8, #9

sesshu wrote 6 days ago: #8 year in year out trees’ lives hovering over the parked vehicles 2009 End of the Automotive … more →

Tags: Sesshu Foster, Poetry, urban literature, los angeles literature, Urban Poetry, Post-modern-literature, multicultural literature

car haiku #7

sesshu wrote 1 week ago: East Los Angeles Dirigible Transport Lines Courtesy Shuttle from your home to our tower in Lincoln H … more →

Tags: Sesshu Foster, Poetry, Experimental Writing, innovative writing, urban literature, los angeles literature, Urban Poetry, hybrid genres, Post-modern-literature

COIN in the cities5 comments

iago68 wrote 1 week ago: I’ve been of the opinion (as you surely know) that the principles of COIN doctrine can have re … more →

Tags: counterinsurgency, Crime, gangs, street gangs

Louisville's Car Reliance

gabebullard wrote 1 week ago: This graph (via Wikipedia and Sociological Images) shows commuting habits in major American cities. … more →

Tags: Local News, Transportation

Recent Urban Designs in Cincy & Indy1 comment

urbanqueer wrote 1 week ago: I walk by the 3 Mass building all the time, and get all hot and bothered by its fenestration, wonder … more →

Tags: 3cdc, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Mass. Ave., Over the Rhine, Urban Design

Page Turner: the Asian American Literary Festival, by Cynthia Brothers (for Hyphen Magazine)1 comment

sesshu wrote 1 week ago: Ken Chen, director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and winner of the 2009 Yale Series of You … more →

Tags: Experimental Writing, hybrid genres, innovative writing, multicultural literature, Poetry, Post-modern-literature, Sesshu Foster, small press poetry, urban literature

Nulu Rising

gabebullard wrote 1 week ago: Joe Ley, who owns Joe Ley Antiques on Market Street, has hired Village Solutions to develop a long-t … more →

Tags: Local News, development, Neighborhoods, nulu

Detroit's pistol-packin' City Council2 comments

teamowens313 wrote 1 week ago: So according to a rather interesting column in last week’s Detroit Free Press written by Roche … more →

Tags: Detroit Issues, Detroit politics, Detroit City Council

Italian dialect disappearing from Toronto

mikesimpson wrote 2 weeks ago: Today in the Toronto Star there is an interesting article on the disappearance of “Italiese, … more →

Tags: Canada, Culture, language, Toronto

Video of William J. Wilson on "More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City"

Ezra Rosser wrote 2 weeks ago: The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan has posted video of William J. Wilson disc … more →

Tags: legal academia, Race

Wayside Inspection Next Week

gabebullard wrote 2 weeks ago: Wayside Christian Mission is running a hotel. It can continue to do so as long as it gets a permit w … more →

Tags: Local News, Homelessness, wayside


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