Contents


Opinion Editorials

Ask Joe

Illin n' Chillin

Kaponda

Jr's Hat


Departments

Resource and Development

Micro-economics
Poor Women writers and artists transition off of Welfare through micro-economics. A project of POOR MAGAZINE.

Investigative Journalism

Loaves vs. Lofts
Gourmet catering company objects to being relocated by high priced live work/lofts. (Part two in an ongoing series of special reports from "the inside" on gentrification) by Giovonna Willis-Barela staff writer, POOR Magazine

The Po' Poets Project

Ode to JFK Jr.

Notes from the inside
A Journal of Incarcerated Writers & Artists

Photography

REFRAMING THE OUTSIDE
by John M.
subject: Ken Moshesh

Accessing the Media
by The California Department of Corrections (CDoC).


Featured Artists

Richard At Work
Artist Ed Gould

Woman with Hammer
Artist Herbie






Ode to JFK Jr.




By PNN Staff

The big splash in the ocean
made a big splash across the news.
Another Kennedy gone.
The dream gone down with a plane.

What about that poor ghetto boy
who never received a glance
because you thought he might
rob your white ass?

Yeah, he was expendable,
didn't even make the blotter
because it was just another
"bust a cap on your ass" routine
in the hood.

And the Ese, who got jacked up
on some bad dope bought
into the barrio by some
untouchable powerful dark force?

Yeah, he's deep six.

No one cared.
No one even knew.
Because their life is cheap.

What might they have accomplished
if given a chance?
A chance to be treated like people
with potential,
not like common criminals?



More from Investigative Journalism:

THIS WIND CALLED MARIA (SHRIVER)

Indifferent Institutions

The Poor Get Diabetes; The Rich Get Local and Organic

A New Globalized Economy or A New Globalized Poverty

Transforming Public Space

Lofts vs. Loaves

Ode to JFK Jr.