Kelley's Honey Farms always takes care of me! Catch me on tour to get your sample!

The Van Show: Austin Public Library

VANCITY FALL SHOOT...

          Wings & Prayers- For Sale at The University of Houston-Sugar Land

             
​My Work Featured Downtown: Houston, TX

                                                         Kelley's Honey Farms

San Antonio Indie Book Festival

AAC Book Festival

Vancity Original Brand

                                           Van Supports Hard Rock Cafe's SIG. SERIES 34

     Dear Texas Radio Interview
                      June 1, 2016
 https://soundcloud.com/user-783083760/dear-texas-radio-show-49-van-g-garrett

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                       If you understood everything I said, you’d be me. 
                      ― Miles Davis

miles is cool as hell
 
playing some old laid-back trumpet
hunching his shoulders like john wayne
getting ready to do something drastic
like convert a 4/4 tempo
to a double time solo
that makes an audience sweat
as he coolly makes his fingers
breeze over over-worked keys
like a trigger happy maverick
firing shots in clouds of smoke
 
© Van G. Garrett, Songs in Blue Negritude
www.vanggarrettpoet.com
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Vancity Original-Hot
For the Summer...

@stolbiesisters. Photo credit: @thesnappist. #RepVancity #VanGGarrettforVancity

The Extent Of An Unpredicted Event

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​Snail Fest
 
Robot-like,
I stare down blocks.
 
Tightly wound.
Chomping asphalt.
 
Wedges turn to salt.

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Art: Daryl Gannon, UK / USA

​Words: Van G. Garrett, USA

​Canada's Vancity Original announced that it is the official clothing sponsor partner for international author/artist Van G. Garrett’s 2016 book tour. This news follows the launching of Linx Beach. A collaborative line inspired by Grammy-winning and rap hall of famer Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan.

A poem from my Basquiat Suite.
Published in Verse/Chorus: A Call and Response Anthology

Self-Portrait, 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat

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​After Basquiat's Self-Portrait,1982 
Van G. Garrett

I'm the shadow rocking an arrow.
Gray city below.

Larger than life,
My limbs reign/rain.

Rupture clouds.
Building blocks lean.

I'm the modern-day Zeus.
I'm no myth.

From The Power of We: Shoot 1
Photographer: Ron Villaraza
http://www.ronvillaphotography.com
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LIVE IN PARIS: LE 9

From the House of Shock, Written and Narrated by Van G. Garrett

Tribute Art: Inside and Outside by Cindy Xia

A Short Stories App for the Android Phone
"Socks on the Beach" is on AQR: A Quick Read. A new short stories app for the Android Phone. "Socks on the Beach" can be found in the Twist in Tale folder: 
"Q-Z".http://www.aquickread.net/categories.php 

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LOC VADER'S GET A LIFE PODCAST
September 8, 2013.                                                                       

EPISODE #11   ​

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Check out my most recent interview on my 'Get a Life' podcast at locvader.com! In episode #11, Loc Vader interviews native Houstonian poet Van G. Garrett at Houston Baptist University (in the same room where Garrett met the late Lorenzo Thomas). Garrett sheds light on travels abroad to Ghana & Latvia as well as the challenges & rewards of painting & writing poetry & fiction. He also shares his experience with mass media: shooting videos & photography. Garrett reads from his debut poetry collection Songs in Blue Negritude (Xavier Review Press, 2008), discusses his most recent novella, & hints at exclusive details about his forthcoming sequel to The Iron Legs in the Trees (Seaburn Books, 2013). In addition, he pays a touching tribute to the memory of poet & scholar Lorenzo Thomas (1944-2005).     
        

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Photo Shoot by Christopher Patronella, Jr.

TV Interview: Urban Poetry

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Live In Latvia: Gertrudes St. Theater

On TV in Latvia (2): http://www.diena.lv/diena-tv/izklaide-makslas/latvija-plaukst-jauns-zanrs-dzejas-sacensibas-13903301

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Photograph by Christopher Patronella, Jr.

Reading on The Poets' Corner, Taping for the Blind/Sight Into Sound.