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pathanapong

all about balance

About Me

Pathanapong (putt-ta-na-poang) emigrated from Thailand at 8 years old. After spending his undergrad years in Santa Cruz and honing his craft in Oakland, he currently resides in San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles) where he grew up. He has performed at college campuses as well as community events. He has also won poetry slams in New York, LA, and Santa Cruz. A firm believer in our capacity to dream new worlds into existence, he continues to tell it like it is and how it could be. He strives to live a balance life between words and actions.

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Member Since: 9/10/2006
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life, fam, friends, every poet i’ve ever read/heard, everyone i know/met and everyone who continue to love and fight for something bigger than themselves.

my writing became a catalyst for change, for personal and collective liberation -Nellie Wong

our role is simple: comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable! -MLK Jr.

every child is born a poet & every poet is a child -Piri Thomas

the negative legacy from the last 500 yrs of living under colonial conditions is about women, about the exploitation of women’s bodies and what comes out of women’s bodies-Gloria Anzaldua

I believe the world is beautiful/and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone-Roque Dalton

hatred never ends by hatred in this world; by LOVE alone does hatred end. This is an Eternal Law.-The Buddha


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My Blog

lunch conversation [poem-rough]

i had lunch with my mom on her only day off until today i never understood why she rarely said no to her kids i know it's the wrong way to look at it since i came to this country to work but for a lon...
Posted by pathanapong on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:01:00 PST

"We are the leaders weve been waiting for"

more at Boggs CenterShe’s down w/ Obama. ...
Posted by pathanapong on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:33:00 PST

(i will b) livin this

we are each other’sharvest:we are each other’sbusiness:we are each other’smagnitude and bond.-Gwendolyn BrooksOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that ...
Posted by pathanapong on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:09:00 PST

when we let go of everything, only love remains

^chapter title from a book called Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed.  highly recom. Martine, dying of brain tumor: "I would like you all...
Posted by pathanapong on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:48:00 PST

ish is real out here

nuthin like bein sick to help u appreciate ish...and think bout stuff. Ma had surgery twice in two months at the close of 07.  one for each hand.  no insurance so she goes to this hospital ...
Posted by pathanapong on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:12:00 PST

manhood [poem]

1. we be bonded by blood but I am not like you you 1st born celebrated in Chinese culture I, 3rd and last, assumed to be gay since women raised me you collect men's magazines obsess with MTV Cribs l...
Posted by pathanapong on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:59:00 PST

be alright

this makes me :). if you didn't grow up on Street Fighter 2, you might not appreciate the genius of the song. video games was my drug of choice growin up, my escape from BS. Give me Donke...
Posted by pathanapong on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:43:00 PST

love movement [poem]

I wanna dedicate this to the good folks at Youth Together.  I interned with them for six months and my experience there continually informs my politics and naturally my poetry.  And they'll ...
Posted by pathanapong on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:11:00 PST

Redefining the Color of Hate

object width="425" height="350"> Last month i was blessed to be a part of a workshop called "Redefining the Color of Hate," sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) and A...
Posted by pathanapong on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:40:00 PST

here, always [poem for Pa]

At age 11,I despised the Chinese in me. Only repped my Thai side. I hated getting angry. A reminder of your bad temper. I admired dads who believe Family Matters. Never lived in a Full House. Ma...
Posted by pathanapong on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:21:00 PST