Another Brother Gone

Your editors had the pleasure or meeting Amiri and having dinner with him in New York. We heard him in Philly raging truths like fire at a rally demanding freedom for Mumia Abu Jamal. I was pleased that he liked and responded to my own work in the Blue Collar Review. Like the best poets he was and remains controversial. He was, beyond Black Nationalism, a class conscious revolutionary who enriched and left his mark on American poetry. He will be missed but, thanks to print and video, he ain't goin' nowhere. Amiri Baraka Presente!

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