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Sleeper Cell is a collection of poems that investigate the institutionalized racism and disenfranchisement of Black youth and one poet's radical ascension from that degradation. *** A Scribe Called Quess? is a poet, educator, actor, playwright and activist in that order. He is a 2-time national slam poetry championship title winner and founding member of Team SNO (Slam New Orleans), New Orleans' three-time national championship title winning slam poetry team. His poetry led him to the classroom where he has served the last seven years as an educator. His work as an educator has been highlighted on NPR in the Voices of Educators series and taken him to Oxford University to speak on school reform. As an actor and theater maker he has written for and acted in productions with Junebug Productions (Voices from the Back of the Class, Lockdown, Gomela), ArtSpot Productions (Rumors of War), Urban Bush Women (Summer Leadership Institute 2009), and other esteemed outfits. In summer of 2014 he was awarded a residency at the Contemporary Arts Center as a part of the inaugural class of the DISTILLERY, where he work shopped his first stage play, "Crossroads," which he continues to work on. He has produced a self-titled CD, "A Scribe Called Quess?" and his debut book of poetry, Blind Visionz, can be found online at lulu.com. Recently, he helped found BYP100 NOLA, a young adult organization that advocates for the protection of black youth from state sanctioned violence. As his work as an artist and educator has always explored issues of social justice and institutional and interpersonal racism, BYP has offered the perfect opportunity for his arts and pedagogy to meet activism. Most recently, he founded Take Em Down NOLA, a coalition dedicated to the removal of White Supremacist monuments in New Orleans.

upBEAT DOWNbeat is a book of poems penned by a working musician who is also a world champion performance poet. It examines the drudgery of wedding receptions, the art of soothing childhood traumas with soulful classics, and the mixed emotions of watching a daughter get bitten by the same bug that makes a people stumble out onto stages for gas money. If you play several instruments or only pretend to play one when alone in your bedroom, this book was written for you.

"Out of all the disturbing things we see and hear, there''s none so strong as hearing someone called to the stage whose stage name is your actual daughter''s name while wasted at some god awful hour of the night." This is the world of stripping-vile and hilarious, heartbreaking and hustling, jarring and numbing, random acts of kindness or abuse. Author N.P. Anne shares her time baring it all in the "sisterhood" of strippers-an alternate life in the dark where the women who are paid for their time by-the-minute are equally marginalized and harassed by management, left to learn to defend themselves from unwanted attention, and all the while learning as quickly as possible to retain their sense of self. These anecdotes and musings explore that range, shedding light on places where not even laser strobes go and exposing us to the life beyond tacky carpets and clear heels.

Bob Dylan, Vladimir Putin, Princess Di,,Julie Andrews, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. Timothy McViegh, Liberace, Michael Jackson (just to drop a few names) and the NFL?YES, In THE MOST INTERESTING LEAGUE IN THE WORLD you''ll find stories linking this eclectic group to the NFL in surprising and interesting ways.And a few cameo appearances by Queen Elizabeth, Pope Francis, Muahammad Ali among others in this unique look at the history of the National Football League.What connects Bob Dylan and the Green Bay Packers?Which former NFL coach is the subject of an opera?What is Steve Jobs enduring connection to every Super Bowl?What does Blind Sheikh Omar have to do with the Kansas City Chiefs?And how did a former NFL player contribute to the popularity of the Chinese National Anthem?These questions are answered in THE MOST INTERESTING LEAGUE IN THE WORLDAlong with other tantalizing facts from the worlds of ...MUSIC--Marvin Gaye, Sinatra,Eminem, Drake,Prince,Jimmy Buffet,Lil Wayne, Fats Domino,Eminem and moreFILM--Tom Hanks,Julie Andrews,Charlton Heston,Robin Williams,Robert Duvall and Star WarsCULTURE-Thomas Hart Benton,George R R Martin,Leon Uris,the KardashiansEven the animal kingdom represented by an alligator, a gorilla, a shark, a monkey, chickens,pigeons, a goat and a gentleman chimpanzee and more.POLITICS-Harry Truman, LBJ, JFK, Barack Obama,Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Donald Trump, Rutherford B. Hayes , Herbert Hoover;s wife and one tidbit about Nancy PelosiThree stories about Al Capone6 stories about JFKAnd 6 count''em , 6 tales about curses.Stories about an astronaut,a hangman, an alleged hit man and a couple of murders thrown in here and there.Fans, Owners, Sex, Gambling, War, Crime even sadly murder kind of like the Bible.All inside the pages of THE MOST INTERESTING LEAGUE IN THE WORLDAltogether an array of tales that should pique the interest of every football fan and those who are not so familiar with the game in what may be the most unique book on pro football EVER..