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John Lawson

JK Lawson is a professional artist and poet. Over the past 25 years his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the USA including the American Visionary Museum in Baltimore, the Californian African American Museum in Los Angelos and this fall The Hebrew Union Collage in New York new York.. He is the author of five books including Now, his first full collection of poems. His novel, Hurricane Hotel set during Hurricane Katrina has been successfully adapted for the theater with several staged readings both in the USA and UK. Currently JK is involved in establishing a poets/songwriter residency at the Rame Center for the Arts in Cornwall, U.K. For more information please visit www.lawsonworks.com or follow him on facebook

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POEM: Huey and the bewilderment of dreams

Dedicated to Lake Charles, Louisiana.

POEM: Papa and a Rope

Instantly a gift and a song washes over us.

POEM: Demons on the half shell

And like it or not we continue to drink from the same salted cup Toe tapping perhaps to Lonesome Sundown 

POEM: Skipping with a rope in Pa

Soft whispers and the cure of moonlight/ Fade into what might have been/ A waking dream foretold perhaps/ Amongst popcorn and a silent movie

POEM: Barefooted Dogs

Swaying, barely anchored, I make my way to the bottom pilings of the Mississippi Bridge and begin to climb.

POEM: Without Fingerprints

A poem upon the occasion of citizens being arrested for standing in the way of a fracked natural gas pipeline conveying climate change.

POEM: Syria

In view of Tuesday’s horrific nerve agent attack on civilians in Idib Province and in view of Friday’s missile attack on Syria, we are republishing John Lawson’s poem that we posted in December about the Syrian conflict.

POEM: Anonymous Concrete

Listen to the flag rope hitting the flagpole no flag is in sight and yet we all wave

TWO POEMS: ‘Syria’ and ‘Grocery List’

Two poems by John K. Lawson, commenting on war and complacency.

POEM: Labor Day

From the artist John K. Lawson, a poem on Labor Day.

POEM: Helicopters

So what is going to happen Feels beyond our control The great you s of a just won another Olympic gold medal.

POEM: The world is on fire

A poem for Independence Day, 2016.

POEM: Anonymous concrete

British-born poet and artist John Lawson expresses his reaction to this week's Brexit vote to have England leave the European Union.

POEM: Mickey Mouse is weeping

A poem inspired by the slaughter of 49 people in at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

POEM: Ghost Rats

A poem written after the Great Barrington annual town meeting that rejected the town's assessment to the Berkshire Hills Regional School District.

The Dizzy Echoes of Tomorrow —- in memory of Prince

A poem in memory of Prince, the musician and song writer, who died on April 21.
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