I can’t write on medication
stretch out on planks
keep them I punch it

You can’t see it in this photo but I was wearing a Lycra, flared jumpsuit.

Check out this Ft. Lauderdale view from our good friend Mary Chen! 

“What are you?” a member of the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston asked at the trial of the white man who killed eight of her fellow black parishioners and their pastor. “What kind of subhuman miscreant could commit such evil?... What happened to you, Dylann?”

As we observe Veterans Day on Friday, November 10th, let's pray for the safety of the almost 200,000 U.S. troops who are currently deployed overseas in 177 countries and for the countless veterans and civilians right here on our soil who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

I used to be the executive assistant to the vice president of Chanel
I worked my way up from Estée Lauder

"READ THE GODDAMN POEM!" Steve bellows from the bar of the Nuyourican Poet's Cafe! 

skip the irony of the laboratory
and the four hundred bucks.

As I was sayin papichulo
My pussy’s got a name
But you don’t know it / never bothered to ask
 

In the living room between separated couches,
Sun beaming on the wall while suspense arouses.

Steve and the gang took a trip to Le Poisson Rouge to check out some swingin' music.

This benefit concert featured:

Bobby Sanabria MULTIVERSE Big Band & David Amram, Paquito D’Rivera, Candido, Jimmy Owens, Randy Brecker, Jon Faddis, Larry Harlow, Eddie Montalvo, Brenda Feliciano, Antoinette Montague, Mariposa and Felipe Luciano, plus DJ Antonio Ocasio (Tribal Winds) and many more surprise guests

HOTELS generally don’t figure prominently in my imagination, but Yosemite Valley does, and so does the glamorous Ahwahnee Hotel. When my father took me on Yosemite climbing trips in the 1980s, we never stayed at the Ahwahnee — it costs a fortune — but Dad always brought clean dress shirts so that we could hang out in the Ahwahnee’s kitschy Indian Room Bar before we slept illegally under the evergreens.

Mary Chen, friend of Tribes, visited Cuba and left these as evidence - check it out! 

Barreling like gut born love songs
Your ancestors are smiling
As we pass the time
When we ride
It's language

The Over Holland Foundation donates David Hammons African-American Flag to MOCA Chicago. 

Tribes' fearless leader, "Blind Guy," Steve Cannon penned this poem to accompany David Hammons' exhibit on Charles White and Leonardo DaVinci at the Museum of Modern Art. Dig it!

Hey folks! Check out Ai WeiWei's Good Fences Get Good Neighbors at Washington Square Park and other locations around the city for some thought provoking public installation art. 

Come on out and help Puerto Rico rebuild and recover!