Greetings and welcome to my poetic planet, My last blog was written to publicly praise two legends who broke barriers on the Billboard country charts recently, Tracy Chapman and Beyonce. However, this one is a public critique of the most decorated Grammy winner of all time, and my intention is to urge Beyonce to [...]
Oh, the irony! Yesterday, June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was officially overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Sometimes it seems the stars align to urge me to speak up on political issues. But longtime fans already know that Polly Ticks me off. Exactly sixteen years before the Court's decision yesterday, my heart was [...]
What you may or may not know about me is I taught Public Speaking for a year at Mission College. The "Ballot or the Bullet" speech ranks seventh on the list of 100 great American speeches of the 20th century, as determined by leading scholars of rhetoric. I've been in a happy interracial marriage for [...]
This poem has come to mind a little too often this year, thanks to the obvious militarization of our police force in Ferguson, the broken infrastructure and politics per usual in the U.S. May it be a reminder that we are all still making choices big and small. My name is Venus Jones and I [...]