What of a land where people’s lives are thwarted at every turn, where prospects are determined by party status, where movements are restricted by permits, orders, and decrees, where “justice” is meted out mercilessly, and against which there is no recourse.

I cannot bring it to the international food fest

at the middle school; it will be returned

like the tea eggs after orchestra practice.

He calls out to all seated in silk and florals

To believe

Another life we have

Far greater and bigger than here

All our love goes out from Tribes to the people of Puerto Rico. Our friends at La Lucha Gallery suggest two ways to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria:

We at Tribes stand, kneel, and lock arms in solidarity with all members of the NFL who are exercising their right to free speech and protesting police brutality, violence against African Americans, and the recent words of Donald Trump.

Having guided America through the assassination of an American President, Roosevelt was a belligerent presence and a powerful leader on the world stage fighting for the American Way of Life. Not everybody liked the first Roosevelt though. Unusual in appearance, there are still unflattering cartoons of him, like the one on the cover, that remain to this day. 

Beau Sia, Bob Holman and Steve during a recent visit at Tribes.

Check out Beau's 37 Poems for Steve Cannon on his YouTube Channel!

HERE

‘Skin me, Brer Fox,’ sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, ‘snatch out my eyeballs, t’ar out my years by de roots, en cut off my legs,’ sezee, ‘but do please, Brer Fox, don’t fling me in dat brier- patch,’ sezee.
Co’se Brer Fox wanter hurt Brer Rabbit bad ez he kin, so he cotch ’im by de behime legs en slung ’im right in de middle er de brier-patch.’

Meet Luciann Berrios - Astoria native and Tribes Poet.

EMPIRES WILL FALL, ALTHOUGH WHICH ONES, ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

It is characteristic of our cultural moment that sincerity often sits uneasy in our stomachs. We’ve heard all the lines before. We know them from a million b-list movies we can’t quite recall, but which form a background of white noise to everything we take in today.

Here's who we voted for - who did you vote for?

Fresh video content by Mary Chen

The author of Negrophobia has run off 

with my Marxist roommate, but it's fine.  

With the almost dystopian world of dating and love explored by Lacey, I was reminded not only of science fiction but of the dating world right now in the twenty-first century.

Photos from our friend, artist and Tribes member Dora Espinosa in Yosemite.