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Street Roots vendors reflect on Pulse shooting in Orlando

This week, Street Roots’ Creative Writing prompt was a response to the shooting at Pulse in Orlando, Fla. Vendors were encouraged to write their own responses. Here is what they wrote. In Response to the Orlando Shooting By Aileen McPherson Is it t ...

23 Jun 2016 - Street Roots
Oregon’s new poet laureate gets back to her roots as a writer

Elizabeth Woody talks about family, living with poverty, and her Native American culture that shapes her view of life To meet Elizabeth Woody is to feel the full breadth of nature embodied in a woman. She truly understands the human condition. And she is ...

12 May 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
DarkMatter takes up politics through poetry

Trans activists use performance art to express their views about gender, race, sexuality Trans performance art duo DarkMatter had quite the 2015. Composed of former Stanford schoolmates Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, the group’s unique brand ...

10 Mar 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
'Twas the Protest Before Christmas

No more Chasses! Nor Kendras! Nor Billy Wayne Simms! No Tasing, no shooting of black people on whims! 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the jail Not an inmate was stirring, 'cept those who made bail Phone calls were made to the ...

23 Dec 2015 - Chris O'Connor
Turiya Autry: The Portland performer on her one-woman show about a young black woman’s search for identity

“Roots, Reality & Rhyme: The One-Woman Show” For the past two decades poet, performer and teaching artist Turiya Autry has been getting up close and personal with Portland audiences. Known for her visceral, lyrical autobiographical pieces, she works i ...

19 Jan 2015 -
The artist formerly known as Johnny No Bueno

From the streets to the stage, Sean Aaron Bowers grows up with poetry Poet Sean Aaron Bowers, 33, known to many as Johnny No Bueno, writes with the grittiest of voices. Reading his poetry is like jumping into the moshpit at a punk rock show. The brash lan ...

4 Dec 2013 - Claire Valentin...
A poet finds his way at Street Roots

Nick Sullivan has come a long way from his first day selling Street Roots. “At first it was scary,” says Nick about the experience. “But once I get out there and I have my Street Roots shirt on and I hold up my papers, I sort of relax and it always seems ...

11 Sep 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Poetry Tuesday: Untitled

Poetry Tuesday: Untitled by Katie Eyes within the sand witness the uncertainty of the moon, an undertow in disguise, The weight of the sea shifting, upon me. Stress waves its claws signaling that-- everything really isn’t as okay as the stars have lead me ...

7 Sep 2010 - Street Roots
Poetry Tuesday: What Matters

Poetry Tuesday: What Matters by J. Thiemeyer I consider the folderol, the hurley- burley and delight in it, so in it, the chaos that drove me carried me for what seemed forever or the forever that mattered I forget why I was invited with my soul to ...

24 Aug 2010 - Street Roots
Poetry Tuesday: Aged Earl Grey

Poetry Tuesday: Aged Earl Grey by Therresa Kennedy We had no money, so we asked for the free cup of hot water, Water for the tea, the 'aged' Earl Grey in my pocket. After we had sipped the grey-gold liquid, we stopped being angry, We stopped the ...

27 Jul 2010 - Street Roots