Joe Kidd

QUI EST LE POÈTE?

Joe Kidd is a working poet, singer, songwriter, and musician touring North America and Western Europe, inducted into the Michigan Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017. In 2020, Joe Kidd published The Invisible Waterhole, a collection of spiritual and sensual verse. He has been awarded by the Michigan Governor's Office and the US House of Representatives for his work to advance Peace, Social Justice, and Cultural Diversity. Joe is a speech writer, and a music, poetry, and film reviewer for international magazines and websites. 

His poems have also been translated into Vietnamese and published in one of the largest and most influential literature papers in South East Asia – Van Nghe. Back To The Throne, La Seduccion, and City Within A City are piercing, lyrical, unexpected, hypnotizing: elevating. 

Joe Kidd is {R}3's Apotheosis.

«A City Within A City»

I live in a city within a city

where the atmosphere is a coagulation

of dreams that have hardened in the arteries

of struggle, of survival, of vocabulary

from behind the walls of fortification

all words dress in obscurity's cloak

hiding in the names of the streets and street wise agents

drunk on the slang of the wandering lost

in urban profanity, a growling parasite

feeds on the blood of the anemic inhabitants

burning like abandoned vehicles

on a free/way that is anything but

high above the towers of empire

beneath a brilliant stained glass sky

there stands in silence a haunting proof

a crumbling madness, a hollow threat

the artists gather on the riverbank

to squawk and defecate upon the stones

the politicians, three steps behind

to confiscate the discarded bones

here is the home of the living deity

here is the capital of the parallel world

a sacramental celebration

a metropolis of love and jewels and birth

this is the desired dwelling

unlimited within the limitations

of a liquid room floating upon the surface

of a city deep within a city

Joe Kidd