Slo Dance Table

Poems by Ted Wilson

with an Introduction by Amiri Baraka

Table of Contents

vii	Introduction . . . by Amiri Baraka
1	Willie The Waiter
13	Culture
14	A Flash
15	Checkin' the Set
17	Padrino
18	Bravo
19	How About?
20	For H.J.
21	A Real Long Look
27	Blues Out/More to Lunch
30	1/22/97-5/5/97
35	Laissez-Faire
38	Rock Steady
39	Cleaner Than the Board of Health
41	Pop
43	For Us/To Us
46	Cheese
49	Shine Continues
51	Journey
52	Sounders
54	Sounders II
55	Mobutu & Zaire
59	A Liberal Report
60	Hollywood
61	Notes from Another Time
64	From the People to Our Youth
66	The Protector
69	Slo' Dance
72	For Fats Waller
73	One/Four Bobby Soul
77	R&B memories
81	Loving Kindness
83	Ask and Ye Shall Receive
85	The Commander
88	All About Max
91	Soul Saving Station
92	Miss Leola
94	Tree Limbs and Autumn Sands
96	Nana
98	Pretty Black Joe
101	Don't Kid Yourself
104	Civilization
105	Flip(ped) Out
106	Reflexions of a Fallen Hero
107	Diallo 41
112	Take It Again 9this time from the top)
	Related files: Acknowledgements Amiri Baraka Celebrating the Release Louis Reyes Rivera Slo Dance Reviews * * * * *

Ted Wilson, formerly with Pride and Liberator magazines, is a writer, producer, and promoter, most recently with the Bread Is Rising poetry series in New York City.

A cultural worker since the 1960s Black Liberation/human rights movements, Ted's writings have appeared in several journals: The Black Nation; Black American Literature Forum; Callaloo; NOBO: Journal of African American Thought; and anthologies: Amiri Baraka: The Kaleidoscopic Torch (ed. J.E. Gwynne); In Defense of Mumia (eds. S.E. Anderson, T. Medina); Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (eds. L. Jones, L. Neal); New Rain #9: Our Fathers/Ourselves (eds. G. Johnston, M. M'Buzi Moore)].

He also works as a Construction Manager Consultant and Developer currently involved in an effort to develop a Cultural/Arts district in Newark, New Jersey.

Source: Ted Wilson. Slo' Dance. Brooklyn, NY: Shamal Books, 2003 / Contact: Shamal Books, GPO Box 16, NYC 10116 (718) 622 4426

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update 4 August 2008