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This Week's Featured Artist

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Stazja McFadyen is an equal opportunity poet. She sits up straight at Arts
Council and Poetry Society readings, then gets down on the sidewalk with
street poets.

Stazja's poetry has been published in print and electronically in the US,
Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. Recent print publications include
chapbooks, Where Would I Be Without You? Love Poems To My Road Atlas
(PoetWarrior Press, 2000); Two Bit Love Poems Cheap; 2001: a di-verse-city
odyssey (AIPF 2001); Texas Poetry Calendar 2001; One Drop: To Be The Color
Black, Volume 2.

A human rights poet activist, she is a contributor to Will Work For Peace:
New Political Poems (Zeropanik Press, 2000), poets4peace.com, and the United
Nations' Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry (dialoguepoetry.org).

She has featured at festivals and spoken word venues throughout the United
States.

Without dropping her monthly hosting duties at the First Sundays Poetry Slam
in St. Petersburg, Florida, Stazja will be in SoCal in September for an
eight-engagement tour, and in October will make featured guest appearances at
the Bristol International Festival and London's Paddington International
Poetry Festival in the UK.

She is venue coordinator for Austin International Poetry Festival (aipf.org)
and editor/publisher of Map of Austin Poetry (international distribution) and
PoEmPath (Tampa Bay area) e-newsletters.

To find out more about Stazja's poetry community building projects and
publications, contact her at stazja@aol.com.

Other Featured Artist

queenbeat Slammaster j. bradley Patrick Scott Barnes Vanessa Rivera Tracy Kamhi Shamele Akua Jenkins
Sylus "Sy-Fire" Green Richard "Poetry King" Dohrawdt Medina Earth Georgia A. Popoff Jose Acosta

Words on Audio

Coming as soon as possible, Uiwe2001 will provide you with Words on Audio of different artist. These files will either be in WAV or in Windows Media format. But keep up, it's coming real soon!

Works Available From

uiwe, 144PLAY, Jose Acosta, Shamele Akua Adoma Jenkins , MysticalPoet, Calvin Banks, Zanetta Doyle , Tami G., MissRead? , Anthony D., AbstractBlack, Baheenah Hazida-Zuna, Jahsada, Saaron Crowell

Inner Views with Artist of the Month

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Words of the Month

AH BLACK ROSE

PICK THE PETALS AND INDULGE YOUR SELF
IN THE DARKNESS OF THE BLACK ROSE
SIT BACK RELAX AND VIEW HER ESSENCE UNFOLD
SHE'S AN EPERVESENT OF THE SOUL
OR AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT SHE'S TOLD

ITS SOUGHT OF LIKE MYRRH SCENTED SPIRITS OVERWHELMED
WHEN SOFT AFRICAN, BLACK PETALS
BLOOM ON MOUNT ZION'S FULL MOON

YOU SEE NOW

IDOLATRY, HATRED INTENTIONS ,OUTBURST OF WRATH
AMBITIONS AND DISSENSIONS
HAVE NO REPETITIOUS ENTRANCE IN HER GARDEN DIMENSIONS

WHEN

DAY BREAK
AND BLACK PETALS AWAKE
LIGHTNING UP/ WHEN YOU GLANCE HER WAY
WITH THE PINCH OF A PRICK OR THE TWINKLE OF EYES

CAST INTRICATE ERECTIONS IN THE RHYTHM OF THE SUNRISE

SURPRISE!!!

I FIGURED YOU NEVER SEEN
THE BEAUTY OF THE BLACK ROSE BEFORE
TORTURED AND TORMENTED BY THE SCORE

SHE'S GIVEN BIRTH TO MANY AH GARDENS
UNTIL THEM INSECTS CAME AH BOBBING
AND WEAKENING HER SPECIES

WHILE SPREADING THEM INTO VARIOUS PLOTS

DROUGHTS AND FLOODS
BUT SHE'S STILL ABOVE THE MOST SOPHISTICATED OF GARDENS
WHILE HER BEAUTY HAS NO CHOICE

BUT TO BEG YOUR PARDON

NOW HAVE YOU EVER IN YOUR LIFE
UNVEILED AND REALLY VISUALIZED
THE BEAUTY OF THE BLACK ROSE BEFORE

SYMBOLIZING PRIDE FURTHER THAN THE HUMAN EYE

AS SHE CONTINUES TO STRIVE
KNOWN AS THE PURE BLACK PRIZE
NO MATTER WHAT COLOR SHAPE OR SIZE

HAVE PATIENCE AND LET HER STEMS RISE
THE SEEDS BEFORE I N I WERE NURTURED WITH CARE

SO THEREFORE MY DEAR

LAY ASIDE ALL FILTHINESS
POSSESING CONNECTIONS TO WICKEDNESS
AND RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS
THE SLEEKNESS OF HER PETALS BLACK SWEETNESS

FOR SHE'S JUST

AH BLACK ROSE
saj howell copyright 2001


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