Creative Tribute To Tha Artvist
Copyright 2005 by Lady Devon Hill

Sister Nineties Literary Group (S~NLG) is a literary and arts outreach organization started by the multitalented and incomparable Mrs.Debra Morrowloving a.k.a. Mama D...The organization is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A. but has chapters throughout the U.S.A. and membership throughout the world...The talents of the members are showcased through several publications each year...To learn more about this beautiful organization please e-mail Mrs. Morrowloving at mywriteword@yahoo.com and send letter(s) of correspondence to the following address:
S~NLG
P.O. BOX 4506
St.Louis,MO 63108

These poems by Mama Collette and Mama D. Morrowloving and picture by Lady Devon Hill can be found in the 2005 Kwanzaa Edition of Sister Nineties Literary Journal titled "Cultivating Family"

sonku R2C2H2
by Mama Collette

Poltical hats
run to see two herds
blues fuse connects trane
music directs paint
powerful canvas

MUTUALLY MUSIVE ARTIVIST

by D. Morrowloving

blends jazz history
with contemporary
events and theory
denudes lies
at every gallery

innovative learner
strokes his pens in
images red, Black
green, blues telling
honest thoughts
showing
what to remember
demanding we
do not forget
an artivist

blends jazz history
with contemporary
events and theory
dispels myths
at every gallery

understanding dual soul
of Bert Williams
like nobody
except maybe DuBois

paints sunshine bright
beneath blood red strokes
and the hanging eyeball
so we retain
what the hate looks like
that killed Emmett Till

crowns of kings
birds, spread-winged
symbolize things
of culture, value
me, you
from Sankofa

to Charlie Parker
the artivist

blends jazz history
with contemporary
events and theory
exposing lies
at every gallery

decoded place
in Sun Ra space
that seemed to radiate
from an ancestral face
like a muse of fate

traveling
throughout Southeast
with Langston's detrmination
signing books
arting salons
from Memphis to Paris
by way of Cali to DC
scratching out lies
speaking truths
that fall on hungry ears
the artivist

always ready
to keep our youth steady
from a foundation
of ancestor veneration
providing explanation
of Louie's pained grin
and the shape were in


artivist

blends jazz history
with contemporary
events and theory
repairs half truths
at every gallery

we salute the artivist-
topped with a brim-
wrapping us up in
warmth from deep laughter
that follows his "common sense"
approach to biased theories
shares his Afrikan muse
with Sister~Nineties and EliotReview
acclimating students new
to John B. Ervin at Wash U
in Dogtown and at Ted Drewe's
for a real taste of brew
from mindsets askew
in the racially polarized "Lou"