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DugLast

...even if I'm dug last, I'll finish first.

About Me

Father, Husband, Affrilachian Poet, Hip Hop Head, Afro-Punk

My Interests

Poetry, prose, living without violence, community service, merging different cultures through the love of art.www.affrilachianpoets.com

I'd like to meet:

Poets, novelists, journalists, musicians, painters--creative spirits of all kinds, famous or about to be.



Get this video and more at MySpace.com / Trailer for "Afro-Punk," a film by James Spooner

Music:

Bad Brains, Parliament/Funkadelic, Deftones, The Clash, Slint, X, Germs, Jeff Buckley, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Public Enemy, Run DMC, The Roots, Mos Def, Common, dead prez, OutKast, Little Brother, Prince, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway (did I mention Donny Hathaway?), any cat with a mixtape and a dream.
Get this video and more at MySpace.comDonny Hathaway, "Put Your Hands in the Hand"

Books:

Mitchell L. H. Douglas' poetry appears in Callaloo, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (University of Georgia Press), Crab Orchard Review, Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press), America! What's My Name? (Wind Press), Zoland Poetry Volume II (Zoland Books) and The Louisville Review (for which he received a 2006 Pushcart Prize nomination). His poetry is forthcoming in Ninth Letter. A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, Cave Canem fellow, and Poetry editor for PLUCK!: the Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, his poetry manuscript C______ _____D was third runner-up for the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, a semifinalist for the 2007 Blue Lynx Prize, and a semifinalist for the 2006 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poetry manuscript S____H was a finalist for the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and the 2008 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. His book reviews appear in The Indiana Review.
America! What's My Name ?
Zoland Poetry: An Annual of Poems, Translations and Interviews - No. 2 (Zoland Poetry Annual)
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology)
Poetic Voices Without Borders
The World Is Round
Water Street
Blackberries, Blackberries
Tougaloo Blues
Black Box
Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (Kentucky Voices, 3)
Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker
Against Which (New Voices)
Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)
Arresting God in Kathmandu
leadbelly: poems (National Poetry Series)
Leaving Atlanta: A Novel
Krik? Krak!
Going to Meet the Man: Stories
Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
American Smooth: Poems
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
Selected Poems
Domestic Work
The Bridegroom: Stories
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
The City in Which I Love You (American Poets Continuum)
Rose (New Poets of America)
The Maverick Room: Poems
Jelly Roll: A Blues
Most Way Home: Poems
Gravity, U.S.A.
Desdemona's Fire
Mercy (American Poets Continuum)
Tender (Pitt Poetry Series)
Brutal Imagination: Poems
Dien Cai Dau (Wesleyan Poetry) powered by frazy.com

Heroes:

My son (AKA the Baller and the Scholar)!!! My daughter (AKA Little Queen). Moms & Pops, Grandma (RIP)& Granddaddy, James Baldwin, Ha Jin, Malcolm X, Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, Donny Hathaway (naturally), people that can really rock a mic (poetry, rap, or otherwise).'http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmJhcmFj a29iYW1hLmNvbQ=='

My Blog

Vows (for Sean Bell)

thinking of justice & consequence while the wound is still fresh...Vows (for Sean Bell) I, Sean,take the,blue line,to be my law...
Posted by DugLast on Fri, 02 May 2008 09:24:00 PST

Get your own damn ball (a lesson in privilege)

So it seems the discussion of privilege has gotten some folks in hot water recently. I’m not going to get into a debate about whether or not white privilege exists. The idea of behaving accordin...
Posted by DugLast on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:41:00 PST

R.I.P. Static

Many people know that my hometown, Louisville, Kentucky, has made a major mark on the world in terms of rock and alternative music (Slint, Will Oldham, Days of the New) but no one represented for us i...
Posted by DugLast on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:45:00 PST

What if: a trillion dollars on healing instead of war?

There is something about breakfast on Sunday morning that absolutely puts me at peace. It's a special bonding time with my family that offers a spiritual healing and a chance to reflect on our blessin...
Posted by DugLast on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:01:00 PST

Back home and counting blessings

So I planned on writing a daily blog about AWP 2008, but the wack Internet connection at my hotel botched that plan. No worries--it was the only wack thing about NYC.Thanks to Ellen Hagan, the Affrila...
Posted by DugLast on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:34:00 PST

I Love New York

So after a flight cancellation (we had a crazy tornado-like wind thing happening in Indianapolis) and a two hour flight delay, I finally made it to NYC yesterday (7 hours late, no less). I was hungry,...
Posted by DugLast on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:48:00 PST

Why MySpace is freaking awesome

I didn't think the phrase "no freaking way" was in my vocabulary, but a message I received today changed that.I get some pretty strange friend requests on MySpace (desperate bands, girls who promise s...
Posted by DugLast on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:25:00 PST

When a poet hits your car and keeps going

So I'm back home Wednesday, and I decide to kill some time at a comic book store before picking my son up from school. As I sit in the car putting my new comics in plastic bags (yes, I'm that much of ...
Posted by DugLast on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:36:00 PST

The check promised, the check received

A few weeks ago, I received my first ever payment for a published poem. I've placed poems here and there, but we all know that a writer's compensation most of the time is a copy (or two if we're lucky...
Posted by DugLast on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:04:00 PST

Affrilachians on the mic in Cincy

The Affrilachian Poets spread the word about PLUCK! and the new poetry anthology America! What's My Name? at the InkTank in Cincinnati over the weekend. Our lineup is different every time, so it's as ...
Posted by DugLast on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:34:00 PST