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About Me

An award-winning journalist, educator and writer, kEnnrodríguez has been called “one of the most honest, down-to-earth performance poets in the region, if not the nation” by the Austin Chronicle. In 2005 he coached and performed with the National Poetry Slam championship team from Albuquerque, N.M. A former heavy metal drummer and Sunday school dropout, Kenn has been honored for his work with young writers and has also been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including “Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Poetry” (Manic D Press) and has featured numerous festivals and venues across the country, including the SXSW Music Conference. Most recently he was included in the documentary film "Committing Poetry in Times of War" about fired Rio Rancho teacher Bill Nevins. He currently lives in Albuquerque, N.M. For more on Kenn, go to his website: http://geocities.com/spokenn.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Frida Khalo, Johnny Cash, Cesar Chavez, Zach de la Rocha, Benicio del Toro, Pelé, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Sherman Alexie, Guillermo del Toro, Lalo Alcaraz, Salma Hayek, Jim Plunkett, Sting, Ken Stabler, Neil Peart, David Beckham, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Peña, Saul Williams, etc.

My Blog

For the ABQ Academy peeps - Cuffee’s "Pink and Brown"

"Pink And Brown"By CuffeeMy fatherUsed to tell me a story about when I was littleHe saidThat I could never understand the concept of Black and whiteThat I used to refer to everyone as either Pink or B...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:38:00 GMT

Haiku for my ABQ Academy peeps

"Emo boy haiku 17"The wind whispers her name& you cry tears of lavenderfreakin' wussJustin brought sexy backZombies brought Halloween backaw yeah!"John Mayer hates me haiku 1"Your body is a wonderland...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:56:00 GMT

Hitting 300

Sometime overnight I hit 300 friends!Hard to believe that when I started building up this here MySpace that I had like 4 friends.Anyway, I figure now I can hold off an invading Internet army made up o...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:56:00 GMT

Right this moment...

(x-posted at spokenn.livejournal.com)I'm remembering what it was like to not be able to breathe without coughing -- just about a month ago.And appreciating the fact that I can breathe without any prob...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:18:00 GMT

Woo hoo! I hit 100!

Wow... just three days after getting serious about this here MySpace page, I've hit 100 friends...I'm gonna have a Rolling rock in celebration.At this rate, I'll hit 1,000 in 10 weeks or so...um... ma...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:50:00 GMT

thoughts and Steve Miller 2

(x-posted at spokenn.livejournal.com)A few thoughts:1) MySpace IS the internet equivalent of methamphetamine. (um... myspace.com/kennrodriguez)2) Typing in people I'd like to meet on MySpace makes rea...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:15:00 GMT