Aaron Anderson: Doctoral student in Literature?

We are pleased to present poetry by Aaron Anderson here in the kinté space. I’m going to group Aaron Anderson with these poets:

• “Aaron Anderson: Santa Cruz and the Clocks of Salvador Dalí.”
• “Andria Albert: Ice Cream Woes”
• “Ann Menebroker: Ernest Hemmingway Is On My Mind”
• “Christopher Mulrooney: rejection slip”
• “Cindy Duhe: Our Future in Zaire”
• “Devin Davis: Snapshots of Space Time”
• “Devin Davis: why sienna beats burnt umber”
• “Doug Tanoury: Impatiens” [PDF]
• “Dwight Williamson: Like A Black Woman”
• “Eli Jones: crafted from concrete”
• “Eric Chaet: Addictions”
• “Esteban Moore: Homage to Memory”
• “Fumilayo Bankole: Zoom Zooms n Wham Whams”
• “H. Songhai: a page for the world” [PDF]
• “Holly Day: Handyman”
• “Ian Irvine: Insecure Sex”
• “Ice Loc’d Out: Chris Hayden”
• “Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien: Skies of Blood” [PDF]
• “John Schmoyer: From the Heart First”
• “Joseph Mayo Wristen: Thinking about You and Your High Flying Ways”
• “LoveNot Love: Annie Vox”
• “Mahoka Zawadi: Spellbound” [PDF]
• “Maria Jacketti: Crayons of the Flesh”
• “Merilene Murphy: these hands”
• “Michael Kresky: poetry in my town”
• “Mirel Brisca: Self-Portrait”
• “Mona Lisa Whitaker: Untitled” [PDF]
• “Moshe Benarroch: A Bird Reads”
• “Moshe Benarroch: Ethnic Minority”
• “Olga Angelina Garcia: A Poor People’s Poem”
• “Padma Jared Thornlyre: Point of Light” [PDF]
• “Peter Magliocco: The T.V. Verdict”
• “Rethabile Masilo: People of Stone”
• “Rhonda K.: Together”
• “Roland X: Dead Woman Dying”
• “Sandra E. Morris: Beauty of the Bald Head”
• “Shirley J. Walker: Iron Teeth”
• “Silvia A. Brandon Perez: insomnia part 317”
• “Silvia A. Brandon Perez: Metaphysical Pedicure”
• “StreetWrites: Three”
• “Thom Kellar: Primer Gray”
• “Timeka Drew: momentary retrospection”
• “Timeka Drew: where disease and lacking meet”
• “Tom Ewing: A meal is spread out over time”
• “townee: How I’d Describe Myself in 25 Words, or Less”
• “townee: Linuses (at Santa Cruz)”
• “Vladimir Orlov: Poetic License”
• “Vladimir Orlov: We shall wear orange scarves”
• “Ward Kelley: A Pope’s Youngster”
• “Ward Kelley: New Gods” These people—about 40 of them—represent the original ideal behind kintespace.com: that the poet Bryan Wilhite could help other poets publish, using the most advanced publishing technology on the face of the Earth (back in the 1990s and early 2000s). Most likely after reading “kinté FAQs,” these are (some were) the living poets that contacted directly for publication. Of course, I am the first to admit that many more poets contacted me for this and I still encourage you folks to send in your new work.

But three things happened that changed the “game”:

• One: Poets age. I am sure that many young poets see the kinté space as “old fashioned” and the old ones either have their solo web sites, a ‘generic’ site like poetry.org—or the cruelties of imperial hard knocks forced them off the Internet entirely.
• Two: sites like YouTube.com came along and attract younger poets who came of age during the poetry slam era.
• Three: the invention of Blog software. This was huge. I am pleased to see young poets like Rethabile Masilo of Poéfrika using the Blog format. My guess is that about 2005 or 2006 was when the majority of artsy people and the bulk of African Americans really started to flood online through Blog sites. All of the presentations on kintespace.com are hand picked. The process is almost curatorial and is extremely slow even for me. I recall apologize to more than a few of these 40 people for having to wait—sometimes years—before appearing online. I understand how the young cats out there have no sense of the novelty of just being online.

The habit of contacting people over a series of years encourages me to unearth a few interesting tidbits about people. Case in point: Aaron Anderson: Doctoral student in Literature. Is this the same Aaron that published with us? The reason why I am intrigued is because Aaron was listed in 2004 as “a student of film and literature studies at UCSC.” I assume that he was an undergrad in 2004 and now he’s about to get his doctorate. Congratulations!

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