I added this poster i made last poetry month!
I included Iris Berry and Ron Whitehead!!!!!!
Some fuckers stole it and put it up in there group, that I’m IN!!!!…. All that writing behind the Real poets (not Facebook “poets”) is real poetry from them!
Under Iris Berry is a poem from her book Two Blocks East of Vine….
Back in ’96 i wrote poetry for a year, went to acting classes where I ended up buying her book while I waited for my bus to take me over the hill , back to Hollywood….. On the bus I’d read Iris and Bukowski and I’d scratch in a notebook
When I got home, I’d go through cigarettes, bottles of Merlot and beer while banging on my typewriter!
Iris got me to see that life, where I lived, everything was poetry, everything matters, everything can be your next line…
24 years later we became friends, (in 2020) I’m not good at math….
She has been the single biggest living influence of my writing (doing it) ….
She’s Awesome
🙏🏻😇📖✍️
Thanks for reading my epic message
The House of Raven 🐦⬛ 