A literary effort where the entire city is the canvas.
Some 4,000 poems over thirty years of daily practice — including the 365-poem daily cycle of 2017–2018, and the 366-day leap-year cycle of 2027–2028, with Los Angeles as its witness. Staged as live poetry art across the city and county, late 2027. The archive goes public.
An estimated 4,000 poems over thirty years — a voice with receipts.
From the Strong tier — plus ~25 more in the archive
30 years of daily practice. The Discipline is the routine under every composition: morning pages, freestyles, jam sessions, Gangsta Odyssey runs. 4,000 pieces which built the voice. The work comes from showing up.
Sound carries meaning. The Instrument tunes vowels, consonants, and rhythm so the music of the line delivers the sense. The sound of the poem is part of what it says.
Wordcraft that argues. The Weapon makes its case with masculinity, vitriol, vocal aggression and etymological ammunition.
Structure that performs. The Architecture builds staircases, countdowns, catalogs, diptychs, and cycles. The shape of the poem speaks.
Conceptual engines. The Mind runs quantum linguistics, lexical architecture, syntactic tesseraction, and dimensional prosody. It is how large ideas get built into verse.
The Stance stands inside the Black Arts tradition and its evolution. Switching codes with intent, historical consciousness, cultural mathematics. Heritage put to work.
The Heart is Babahood, elegy and Love: the fortitude is what drives the mechanism to continue forward movement. The Heart is indefatigable and tireless in its beating.
Volume
In honor of my musical influences. The collaboration would happen Wone way or no other.
The folio
A tribute to Miles Davis using every song and album title in his discography to recite the ultimate poem.
Voiceover
Wone man, a million voices, ready for any script.
An epic poem honoring 299 African American women of influence — Wone voice, three hundred names, no footnotes. The roll call, the critical analysis, the deep technique, and the ten-week syllabus now live at the poem's own house.
Dedicated to hip-hop — an eight-minute ode to the DJs, the MCs, and the culture. The piece, the craft, the academy, and the count now live at its own house.
Select pieces from Gangsta Odyssey — seated here as the texts are set.
"Photosynthesized the punishment into pigment."
— If I Were A Flower"Charm is merely a C sharp removed from Harm."
— The Allure Of The Lurethere's music in my breath
frisson on my flesh
wise and alive in my death
of ego and pride
body got God inside
constitutional optimism
is a collective heaviness
when the armor I been weldin'
in my storytellin'
I stand like Hyperion through the season of smoke
ring by ring recordin the brush fire burnin' the hope
canopy for the tragedy and apathy,
the anger and dem stranger folk
roots braid underground til the surface level broke
Done with instructions
Finished with thoughts
suspended in imminent fruition
tucked snug at the nose of an invention
chanting your Godly handle at first mention
roads to progress closed for construction since reconstruction
function follows form follows funding, ain't it stunnin' Baby
how quickly rights erode like California coastlines
mine-fields of misinformation, nation divided by design
The World Before The World is here — (20 tracks) ahead of the I'll Make Me A World project.