Unhoused Mothers, Immigrant/Indigenous Families, Youth & Disabled Elders Create Beautiful liberation Theatre 

Poetry from the Poverty Skolaz Theatre/Poetry Writing Workshop in Occupied Seminole Territory (St Petersburg, Florida) at the Misio Dei Church with unhoused parishioners of Misio Dei and members of the Refuge Ministry of Tampa Bay.

Join us for the Humble (yet Grand) Opening of the Uncle Al/Mama Dee Living Library on the sacred land us landless peoples call Homefulness -a homeless/landless peoples self-determined solution to homelessness.

“Put that fruit back,” says Mahershala Ali as the pianist Don Shirley to Viggo Mortensen as Frank "Tony the Lip" Vallelonga in the movie Green Book, with controlled disdain for Tony.

From Green Book to the Best of Enemies 

Poverty Skolaz in Movies 

The new beautiful Jordan Peele movie “US” is about so many things- from false borders to charity industrial complexes to parenting to colonial borders, detention centers and the plantation prison nation all the way through embedded with Christian biblical doomsday allegories, Indigenous iconography and wite-science.  But first and foremost its about the horror movie called Life, the horror of not “seeing” each other- the horror of what I call “the violent act of looking away,” the horrific implica

As a child, I used to watch Mama dance and sing to her favorite song, “Earth Crisis” by Steel Pulse and at the time I didn’t quite understand why she insisted  that I paid attention to that song. She knew that the universe was in peril and in her own artistic way she was preparing me for it.

Dee Allen- Po Poet and Author of the newly released POOR Press publication - Skeletal Black - available at poorpress.net  

From "CARE" to Cages- for Houseless Folks in amerikkklan