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Recent blog entries
Downtown Austin green spaces to become creative canvases as part of the 2009 Texas Biennial art exhibition
22 Apr 2008 09:50 AM Downtown Austin green spaces to become creative canvases as part of the 2009 Texas Biennial... » More
City Hall visitors prefer view from the Mayor's window
17 Apr 2008 01:28 PM Artwork by Martha Gannon wins popular vote at City HallThe City of Austin Economic Growth... » More
Free music Fridays at City Hall
18 Mar 2008 04:26 PM Free music every Friday on the plaza of Austin City HallThe 2008 season of "Live from the... » More
Your ticket to great art
18 Mar 2008 04:17 PM The City of Austin announces call for visual artists for new municipal court/police substation... » More
2008-2009 Cultural Arts Funding Application Period Open
7 Mar 2008 04:36 PM Introductory workshops scheduled for new applicants The Cultural Arts Division of the... » More
Time To Breathe
22 Feb 2008 08:33 PM I am in a very strange position at Arts On Real... Rehearsals for Matt & Ben have not started,... » More
"OK - He's High" Part 2: "Blood"
22 Feb 2008 11:34 AM Warning: More metaphysicalishness from a completely ignorant non-metaphysical thinker. In... » More
Meeting Will Be Held In The Harper Valley Auditorium
9 Feb 2008 11:39 AM As a kid I loved music... I should say, "I always have loved music," but to clarify: As... » More
People's Gallery Opening Reception
8 Feb 2008 10:19 AM You are invited to the...Austin City HallThe People’s Gallery 2008 OPENING RECEPTION February... » More
Freestyle art experience
8 Feb 2008 10:12 AM Freestyle art experience: City of Austin looking for artists for BMX Skate Park public art... » More
Calling You Ladies Who Love Le Bare Wrestlers
4 Feb 2008 05:46 PM Wacky Women, Silly Ladies And Crazy Females! We need you for a formal video recording... » More
COLOSSEUM WRESTLING Images
4 Feb 2008 01:54 PM ? Led by Zeus Maximus (Rip Clark), the mock wrestlers prepare for their final match for... » More
International Visions Poetry Books
31 Jan 2008 09:42 AM INTRODUCINGThe International Visions Poetry Books Quality Trade Paperbacks from BLACK BUZZARD... » More
Austin Mixed Martial Arts
31 Jan 2008 12:45 AM I am looking to start a blog to bring together martial artists in Austin and surrounding to... » More
My Sister's Keeper - Hope in the Midst of HIV (2008)
30 Jan 2008 07:07 AM I read this poem at an HIV/AIDS program put on by the Wright House Wellness Center. It will... » More
WRESTLING: Butch, Sexy, Or Just Pretty Gay.
22 Jan 2008 04:04 PM In just 12 days, the wrestling comedy THE COLOSSEUM opens at Arts On Real. It's a series... » More
New Rule: The Snorer Gets The Green Light
19 Jan 2008 06:27 PM This topic has absolutely nothing to do with theater or the arts or Arts On Real - except... » More
Straight From The Straight Guys Mouth
18 Jan 2008 12:31 PM I'm typically and proudly accepting of people, their cultures and lifestyles and even their... » More
Call for artists: Brazos streetscape public art project
9 Jan 2008 02:28 PM Art in Public Places Program opens call for visual artists for the Brazos streetscape public... » More
Saturday Readers Contest #1
5 Jan 2008 09:46 AM I love public contests. Always have. Last year I held a very successful "Treasure Hunt"... » More
Ten Commandments For 2008
4 Jan 2008 10:54 AM Many people have asked: "Blake, what are your New Year's Resolutions?" OK... Well, not... » More
City Hall art gallery vote
4 Jan 2008 09:41 AM Last chance to vote for your favorite artwork in the City Hall art gallery Art is a great... » More
PIGS and $100 FUNDRAISER through January
2 Jan 2008 09:50 PM WHEN MORE PIGS FLY is up and running - or should I say flying - and you still have four... » More
The Third Ghost
1 Jan 2008 12:43 PM Last week, pre-Christmas, I was sick in bed with a head cold. I began nursing it with suggested... » More
Wonder (9/3/99)
29 Dec 2007 12:52 AM The constellations hang like a mobile over your bassinet. Your virgin fascination reaches... » More
Sacrifices (7/14/99)
29 Dec 2007 12:50 AM This poem was dedicated to former coworker Robin Adrian, who resigned her position to raise... » More
The Tree (late 1990's)
29 Dec 2007 12:48 AM The seasons have sublimed on the ebb of the years, and with each annual nuptial you’ve received... » More
Land of Our Elders (mid-late 1990's)
29 Dec 2007 12:47 AM The petals, heirlooms, from Daughter to Mother to Daughter, sprinkled ceremoniously along... » More
The Women In Me (2004)
29 Dec 2007 12:46 AM This poem is dedicated to the Black woman. I see my future Through Zora Neale’s eyes. Harriet... » More
Silent Rain (mid 1990's)
29 Dec 2007 12:44 AM I see myself in your eyes Through Kingdom Come’s mist A child— A woman— My Daughter’s unborn-- leafing... » More
Dreamer (early 1990's)
29 Dec 2007 12:41 AM Time… She plows through the event horizon to eternity, sowing promises, reaping destiny. For... » More
Imitation of Life (July 1997)
29 Dec 2007 12:40 AM Through steel sheet rock labyrinths we mine the carnal jungle for token delicacies to sate... » More
He Marched On (MLK)
29 Dec 2007 12:39 AM He marched on, Forward, as the Horsemen rode in on teargas clouds, swinging billy-clubs, swearing... » More
Rise My People (November 1996)
29 Dec 2007 12:36 AM This poem is dedicated to my people - the African-American race. Aborted from our Mother... » More
Melancholy (December 1996)
29 Dec 2007 12:35 AM There is a place within my heart, the womb of my soul dreams, but now it has been rendered... » More
Cemetery (1991)
29 Dec 2007 12:33 AM Barren. Lost elegies. Sepulchres. An unkempt burial that belies its incontinence. An old place— been... » More
The Rape (circa 1994)
29 Dec 2007 12:32 AM I cannot scream. Paralyzed! Fight? Freeze? Flight? Instantaneous! But the memory is forever... » More
Death of a Child (early 1990's)
29 Dec 2007 12:31 AM I’ve watched the succession of miseries slowly train across your face, driving fear into your... » More
(Untitled) - circa 1991
29 Dec 2007 12:29 AM Life Is an empty Drama And we are all But puppets of sorrow. All that we think Or feel Is... » More
My Beautiful Black Man (2002)
29 Dec 2007 12:28 AM I touch your face and touch time itself, rippling back to the Beginning, when the Nile first... » More
Eyes of a Princess (Tribute to Princess Diana - Dec 1997)
29 Dec 2007 12:27 AM A priestess of her conscience, she sojourned the tides of Poseidon's respire. Her lapis orbs... » More
Spirits of the Passage (January 2006)
29 Dec 2007 12:25 AM This poem is dedicated to the African slaves who lived and died on the Middle Passage to the... » More
My Name is Coretta (February 2006)
29 Dec 2007 12:22 AM The Songbird is silent Nevermore To raise her voice again In lyrics and promise In condemnation... » More
The Dead Season (March 1991)
29 Dec 2007 12:21 AM The birds leave sky lonely And the sun follows thereafter. She takes her breath And morning... » More
The Beast (circa 1990-3)
29 Dec 2007 12:19 AM I’ve seen It rise From my subconscious and tread through the vulnerable undulation of my thoughts. The... » More
I Know (March 2006)
29 Dec 2007 12:18 AM There are no shadows in this place. There is Darkness. And all my living and dying have... » More
Love Afar (June 2006)
29 Dec 2007 12:16 AM I cannot say the words when I am near you. I bury them deep and pray you cannot see the yearning... » More
I Am A Black Woman (July 2006)
29 Dec 2007 12:15 AM Pain. It runs through my soul. Deep. My Mothers bore my legacy in the anguish of slavery. In... » More
Alone (July 2006)
29 Dec 2007 12:13 AM Alone I sit at this table, pondering life and death. Where has life brought me? To what place? To... » More
My Edith (July 2006)
29 Dec 2007 12:12 AM Dedicated to my friend Edith Valdespino for her birthday A Princess— She rises like a Zenith To... » More





