I keep a quote file in my Evernote. I’ve been collecting quotes and sharing stories on art’s purpose and impact as part of Arts Education Week (Sept. 11 – 19) by tweeting at #ArtsEdWeek and #BecauseOfArtsEd. I decided to make memes and share the inspiration. If there’s a quote or meme that hits you, please […]
Hey Blogworld, I know it’s been a while since I last posted here. With a job, new child and – NOW! – a new book to promote, it’s been hectic. I haven’t had time to do my annual blogiversary posts. I’ll make it back here at some point. In the meantime, I’m amped about my new […]
Anyone who knows my sister, knows she has a personality for TV. Here’s a trailer for her imagined show.
I think I saw her this evening. My wife, Tos, and I were eating dinner before we heard sirens and saw the blue and red lights in front of our house. The badges pulled over a car with three young Black adults. We moved from the living room window to the screened-in porch we kept […]
So, I’ve had this manuscript for three years. I sent it out and I’m still working on getting it picked up. This is another trailer for Point Blank. (Here’s the first.) Check it out!
I wanted to do something different for #NationalPoetryMonth. Instead of cranking out a poem a day for NaPoWriMo (short for National Poetry Writing Month), I wanted to make a video announcing my new manuscript. While this video is targeted at publishers, if you’re not one but enjoyed the video, please share it through your networks. […]
When my wife, Tosin, got Dr. Harvey Karp’s Happiest Baby on the Block DVD, we thought we struck gold. No more nights of Jaz pushing me away. Or Jaz crying out her little lungs when we swaddled her. No. This video was going to show us how to soothe and comfort our baby to sleep so […]
Natasha Marin interviewed me for #WaterStories, an independent project by conceptual artist and community organizer, Natasha Marin. Inspired by the work of the Town Creek Foundation, this series seeks to demonstrate that being connected to and concerned about the water near your home is a human instinct. In the wake of the Flint, MI disaster, […]
Three months ago, I posted the poem, “The Light Inside,” which was inspired by my daughter, Jazmyn King. I wrote that poem while my wife and I awaited her arrival. She’s six weeks outside of the womb, now! Here’s the video for the poem:
Curtis L. Crisler’s new book, “This” Ameri-Can-ah (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2016) “out-schools every school of American poetry.” That’s according to Jericho Brown, American Book Award Winner. Indiana’s Poet Laureate George Kalamaras called Crisler “…the bone man, the heart man, the roaming coyote-man howling from the breath’s bowels.” And the praises don’t stop there. “Curtis L. Crisler has a […]
Alan W. King 