Preview #19, Journal of Pan African Studies

Preview #19, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies

Guest Editor, Marvin X

Tony Medina, Washington DC

Slam-A-Lot

Shit Slam Squat & Pee Slam Bacon & Eggs Slam Ham on Rye Slam Shit on Shinola Slam Spit & Drool Slam Vomit Slam Back Alley Wino Piss Slam Maggots Crawling Out An Open Skull Slam Backstabbing Slam Eviction Slam Ass on Pavement Slam Prescription Slam Hungry Man Slam Starvation Slam Bombs Bursting in Air Slam Dead Roach in Spaghetti Slam Dumb Motherfuckers Can’t Think for Self Slam Reading is Detrimental Slam Cain & Able Slam Gentrification Slam Globalization Slam Hull of a Slaveship Slam Middle Passage Slam Ku Klux Klan Slam Goosestep Heil Hitler Nazi Slam Gas Chamber Slam Sodomy Slam Full Frontal Lobotomy Slam One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Slam I Don’t Give a Damn Slam Genocide Slam Smallpox in Blankets for Indians Slam Thanksgiving Day Slam Resurrection Slam Dead Cock Forklift Viagra Slam Stank Ho Slam Auction Block Slam Kill Whitey Slam Maroon Slam Macheteros Slam Boukman Slam Toussant L’Oveture Slam Jean Jacques Dessaline Slam Che Slam Fidel Slam Nat Turner Slam John Brown Slam Sandinista Slam Al Queda Slam Weapons of Mass Destruction Slam HIV Slam AIDS Slam Anthrax Slam Ebola Soup Slam UN Troops Slam Avian Flu Slam Agent Orange Slam Muscatel Slam Mad Dog Slam Ripple Slam Gut Bucket Blues Slam Rot Gut slam Cocaine Slam Crack Slam Crystal Meth Slam Preemptive Slam Slam National Security Slam Defense Department Manufacture AIDS Slam Bush Administration Bomb the World Trade Center & the Pentagon to Go to War with the Middle East & Snatch Up Oil Wells & Undermine the Euro Slam Your Mother’s a Two-Face Slam Poppa Was a Rolling Stone Slam 40 Acres & a Mule Slam Reparations Slam Zionism Slam Gaza Strip Slam Infitada Slam Suicide Bomber Slam Stolen Land Slam Son of Sam Slam I Am What I Yam Slam Green Eggs & Ham Slam High Blood Pressure Slam Sugar Slam Booger Slam Bling Bling Slam Sing Sing Slam Sick & Demented Slam Jimmy Superfly Snucka Slam Spanish Fly Slam Spanish Inquisition Slam Conquistador Slam Christopher Columbus Slam Cuttie Sark Slam Buffalo Soldier Slam Dredlock Rasta Slam Philistine Slam Afro Sheen Slam Colgate & Listerine Slam Robin Island Slam Apartheid Slam Free Winnie Mandela Slam Negroes with Guns Slam Pedophile Priests & Mean Nuns with Big Rulers Slam James Brown Don’t Want None Won’t Be None Slam We Bombed in Baghdad Slam Iraq Cradle of Civilization Reduced to Barney & Betty Rubble Slam Israelis Genociding Palestinians Slam Scentless Bombs Slam Wailing Wall Slam Tears for Fears Slam Blood for Oil Slam Human Cargo Slam NY Life Slave Insurance Slam Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Globalization Slam Goree Island Slam Elmira Slave Castle Slam Exxon Mobile Slam Watergate Slam Iran Contra Slam Guatemalan Genocide Slam Forced Migration Slam Media Manipulation Slam Embedded Journalists Slam Church & State Slam State & Corporate Slam Eleanor Bumpers Slam Underdevelopment Slam Internment Camp Slam Concentration Camp Slam Reservation Blues Slam Whites Only Slam COINTELPRO Slam FBI Slam CIA Slam Ton Ton Macoute Slam Das Boot Slam Il Duce Slam Antonio Gramsci Slam Skull & Crossbones Illuminati Slam Kiss My Black Ass Slam Bitch Better Have My Money Slam Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down Slam Capitalism & Christianity Slam The Marriage of Hell & Hell Slam Abu Grab Slam Torture Slam Right Wing Reactionary Sociopath Slam Population Control Slam War Crimes Slam I Ain’t Gonna Study War No More Slam O Slam My Best Friend Gayle Slam Stedman & I Slam O Sam I Am Slam Spam Slam Astispumante Slam Hey, You Got Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter Broke Back Mountain Slam Sperm Juleps Slam Chunky Phlegm Slam Taxation without Representation Slam Santeria Slam Shango Elegba Slam Crayola Slam Payola Slam The Grassy Knoll Slam The Blown Out Skull of Jack Kennedy Slam Ethnic Cleansing Slam Police Brutality Slam All-White Juries Exonerating White Cops Slam Coup de tat Slam Regime Change Slam Bitter Fruit Slam Black Reconstruction Slam Bay of Pigs Slam Anti-American Activities Slam Collateral Damage Slam Electric Chair Slam Shock & Awe Slam Scar Tissue Slam Eczema Slam INS Slam Accelerated Sharing Slam World Bank Slam IMF Slam Another World is Possible Slam Planetary Protest Against War Slam DeBeers Diamond Miners Slam A Piece of the Action Slam Petite Bourgeois Slam Genetic Engineering Slam Petro Dollars Slam Idi Amin Dada Slam Mobutu Slam Shanty Town Slam The G-8 Slam Riot Gear Slam Privatization Slam Neo-con Slam Neo-liberalism Slam Driving Down Wages Slam Tax Write-Off for Corporations Slam Good Governance Slam Obey the IMF Slam Sweatshop Slam Say Hello to My Little Friend Slam Carpet Bagging Slam Carpet Bombing Slam Carpet Cleaning Slam Carpet Cutting Slam Carpet Burns Slam Carpet Munching Slam Carpe Diem Slam Corporate Takeover Slam Corpus Christi Slam Carpal Tunnel Slam Constitutions That Stipulate Only Whites Are Human Beings Slam WTO Slam Extra Virgin Olive Oil Slam Sugarless Slam Fat-free Slam Anorexic Slam Bulimic Slam Regurgitation Slam Vomiting on the Side of a Ship Slam Tedious Extended Metaphor Slam Everything in This Motherfucker but the Kitchen Sink Slam The Kitchen Sink Slam

Tony Medina, two-time winner of the Paterson Prize, is the author of fifteen books, including Committed to Breathing; Follow-up Letters to Santa from Kids who Never Got a Response; I and I, Bob Marley; My Old Man Was Always on the Lam; Broke on Ice; and An Onion of Wars. Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University, Medina’s poetry, fiction and essays appear in over ninety anthologies and publications.

Greg Carr, Washington DC

Poem # 1:

A Poem for Stayers

I want to stay
Squat, full, immense
Full of the broad wealth of age and joy and
Ripe, Sweet Life.

I want to leak
All over the space I occupy
Squishy, syrupy flood
Oozing out of every pore and
Onto everything in sight
Liquid, solid
Life

I want to be the thing you love
More than you love yourself

So that when you are gone
I am still here
Your memory stuck to me and
Leaving the stain
Deeply on the land



Poem # 2: Do Not Concede

Your self
Exists
Do Not Concede it
Then tune your ear
To hear
Your self
Over the din
Under the chorus
Around the edges
Just outside the point of focus

Unfix your sight
Do not concede the
Frame of Reference
Regain your perspective
By blurring the one you inherited
From your Masters
Do Not Concede
Your self

The familiar
Is not the thing you have been forced
To accommodate
Do Not Concede It
To the practical, sensible thing
Listen to your Self
It is old beyond age
And longer than length
It is your lasting, essential tie
To God

Do Not Concede


--Greg Carr

Greg E. Carr, Ph.D., JD
Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Chair, Department of Afro-American Studies
Founder's Library, Room 318
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059

November 15, Deadline for Submissions

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