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We’ve entered the countdown stretch to the September 28th launch of the Octogenarian Tour —12 days out as of Monday. The collective that’s organizing the launch are doing a fantastic job of pulling the multiple details of this initial phase of the tour together. I’m really looking forward to the offerings from Poetz Vienne Didier & Tehilayah Ysrayl, & the music that Michael Patterson will bring. & the give & take with the audience is bound to be special.

I’m talking to people in 8 locations about tour presentations in their cities & look forward to being able to roll out details as they unfold. I’m looking forward, all/ways looking forward to the body & soul of the day that’s rizing, to the breath & motion of the nite’s awakening. Looking forward to the relationships that are in the making; & making room in my imagining for that which I cannot now see so that when I see it, I will know how to embrace it & carry it forward into the next & the next & the next imagining. & for every imagining there is a poem rizing.

For this writing, EV’RY THOT A PRAYER / FOR CAROLINE.

& while you’re visiting us at RootFolks Poetz Press, register HERE for the September 28th Octogenarian Launch.

Peace, Luv, Respect!

The OctoGenarian

New York native Kétu Oladuwa is the son of Carrie and John Taylor, Margaret Fisher and Tyrone Foster, and the student of Chief James Hawthorne Béy. Poetry discovered Kétu while on death row for a murder he did not commit. There he calibrated his Afrikan identity & wrote himself anew. With his Life Partner 36 years, he is the father of five. A BS in professional theatre grad of Fordham U, with an MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism, at Northwestern, Kétu blogs at https://rootfolks.com. With 8 self-published books since 2017, he founded Identity Counts Cultural Collective, RootFolks Poets Press, cofounded & produced A Big Apple Jazz Club Series, & Poetikz @ the Krossroads. For 382 days, during 2015-2016, at 70 years, Kétu traveled alone on a motorcycle to the US lower 48 states. Now 80, Kétu's developing a multicity poetry tour.

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