(Top left) Caroline Badon, current Poetry JAM @ LogOn Cafe host. (Top right) Lamar University’s Poetic Souls slam club comes to their first open mic event since revamping the club. The new organizers are Ronald “Scott” Smith Jr. and Vilan “Ageless” Sells. (Bottom left) Kenny Dillon (Bottom right) Autumn Cunningham, sophomore at West Brook HighContinueContinue reading “Poetry Jam: LogOn Cafe hosts poetry open mic first Monday every month”
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Poem: For Mike
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and this is for Mike. Mike was another homeschool alum like me. He was a college classmate and my friend. I want so much for the homeschool community to recognize that we have pain and problems also. Not just public school kids. I want people like Mike to findContinueContinue reading “Poem: For Mike”
Poem: Poetry is how I pray
Southeast Texas has the best fog ever. This photo is from outside the Walmart in Port Arthur. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s March’s poem. I read this spoken word poem at Beaumont’s First Baptist Church Sunday, April 17 during an open mic serviceContinueContinue reading “Poem: Poetry is how I pray”
Poem: Outside
The sun is shining over the flowers my grandfather planted. They’re still growing, long after he died in 1995. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s February’s poem. We can breathe again, out here in the open.Drink in lemonade sunlightbecause each one of us hasContinueContinue reading “Poem: Outside”
Poem: September Again
I read two slam poems this month at the LogOn Cafe’s poetry slam. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s January’s poem. It’s September again,and I feel autumn rushing through my fingertipslike frozen yellow leaved sunshineand I remember when I drank your words like water.ThatContinueContinue reading “Poem: September Again”
Eleanor Skelton 