Malachi Black will perform at Poetry & Art on April 12 at the San Diego Art Institute. Malachi Black is the author of Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and a selection for the PSA’s New American Poets Series (chosen by…

Poet and regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual

Professor and Revolutionary Poets Brigade poet

Teacher, poet, and Vietnam and Navy veteran

Performance poet, activist and feminist

Author

Author, teacher, recipient of the San Diego Book Award and Nazim Hikmet Prize

Spoken word poet, advocate for Chicano issues

Poet and Vietnam veteran

Poet, lyricist, teacher, mother

Poet, writer and musician

“i miss being an alcoholic” I miss being an alcoholic. In the bar nearest to my bed I sit with temples pounding Jaw clenched tight To the rim of a pint Confused between plateaus Of being in love and being alone But I’ve known worse paralogia Than feigning some grand re-entrance To the alcohol game…