Today’s New Verse News: DAVE CHAPPELLE
by Judy Juanita
Dave Chappelle returned for his third stint as host of “Saturday Night Live,” which gave the controversial comedian a starring role in an episode dominated by the midterm elections and the fallout from Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks. —The Washington Post, November 13, 2022
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you're looking malcolmish dave if only you hadn't walked from fifty million dollars empire wouldn't have known if only you'd been ridiculous you could be feted and ignored by all if malcolm had been mediocre and not stood up to empire he would be almost 100 years old while you buck empire over and over making your black ass a target empire smiles all malcolmish giving any judas permission to kill ask malcolm standing in the audubon ballroom looking malcolmish knowing what was coming
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Judy Juanita's poetry collection Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland won the American Book Award 2021 from the Before Columbus Foundation. Winner of the Tartt Fiction Prize at the University of West Alabama [UWA], her short story collection The High Price of Freeways was published by Livingston Press [UWA] in 2022. Her short story, "The Black House," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022, and her poem “Bling” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. Her semi-autobiographical novel Virgin Soul is about a young woman who joins the Black Panther Party in the 60s (Viking, 2013). She appears in Netflix’s Last Chance U: Season 5, Laney College. She teaches writing at University of California, Berkeley.