Friday, July 22, 2016

IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF WRITING


I'm a writer first. When people ask me what I do, that's my response. Then I tell them I'm also a [performance] poet, an editor/literary consultant, and a life consultant. People wonder how I got into all the other stuff and how it connects to my writing, and I tell them: Everything I do outside of writing was borne from my writing. I gotta write the poems before I perform them; and I've always been a performer, though not everyone knows that. I went to acting school in the 90s and have always had an interest in public speaking. Editing and literary consulting came after I wrote my first novel, One Man's Treasure, and was an intern for Rosie Milligan and Maxine Thompson between 2004 and 2006, both of whom are accomplished authors and publishers here in Los Angeles. I started my editing business in January 2006. My life-consulting services are based on and constructed from three of my self-help books. It's all a spin-off of writing. It's the trunk of the tree of my career. Everything else ... branches. Were I not in love with writing, none of my other ventures would exist.

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Friday, July 8, 2016

HAIKU FOR EVERYONE


COMEUPPANCE

Karma's a beast, dressed
to impress, who lures you to
dance, and then shanks you


(c) 2016 Charlene E. Green

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

HAIKU FOR BLACK LIVES #2


THEIR MOVE

Black lives, pawns in this
tainted chess game, illegal
checkmates shroud the board

(c) 2016 Charlene E. Green

HAIKU FOR BLACK LIVES


GAME OVER

I bet black lives will
matter when none are left to
help them win those sports


(c) 2016 Charlene E. Green

INDEPENDENCE DAY??

HAIKU #2 FOR ‪ALTON STERLING
 
INDEPENDENCE DAY??

So much for Alton's
independence; freedom slayed
by crazed blues' bullets


(c) 2016 Charlene E. Green

FALLEN FELON

HAIKU FOR ALTON STERLING

FALLEN FELON

His past, not the point;
point is, he was not pointing
gun when shot point-blank.



(c) 2016 Charlene E. Green