Felino Soriano Tribute

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of the clothing stores on Jamaica Ave. in Queens. The hoop-earring girls in neon leggings and high-tops and lemon raspberry perfume danced down the sidewalks to “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless).” They were singing along with her la da dee la dah dah. Dressed for success at your temp job, you wanted to dance, too. You did not. Now you do. Marianne writes: I first met Felino A. Soriano in 2014 through editor and publisher Amy Huffman. Having just started The Song Is…, my blog-zine for poetry and prose inspired by jazz, I asked Amy if she knew of any poets who would be interested in sending work to me. She immediately thought of Felino who soon submitted “toward smile and its fundamental creation,” a poem for the trumpet player Takuya Kuroda, and “introverted dance and its electronic configuration,” a poem for pianist and composer Kris Bowers. These intriguing, challenging poems were the first of a number of his poems that I published over the next few years. I especially liked that Felino celebrated young jazz musicians like Kuroda, Bowers, Jason Moran, and Robert Glasper, the brilliant ones who are going to bring the music into the future. More importantly, though, Felino was a dynamic poet and a gracious editor. (Full disclosure: he included some of my poems in the glorious of/with. Furthermore, he found a home for my review of Yusef Komunyakaa’s Testimony, a meditation on Charlie Parker and his music.). I was always in awe of how prolific Felino was and how his work evolved throughout his all-too-short lifetime, culminating in his poems that express his love for his family. I have particularly fond memories of reading his collected poems to trace his poetic evolution, and every so often I dip into his Of Collocated Rhythms, poems inspired by Roy Hargrove, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, and many other artists whom other poets do not celebrate as often. Whenever my husband and I go to a concert by a particularly innovative artist like Terence Blanchard or a new artist like Elijah Jamal Balbed, I wonder what Felino would have made of the music, and I regret the poems that will never be written—at least not in our world.
Adios Compadre Felino By Catfish McDaris Evoke the memories of tomorrow the experiment, bad cop, worse cop grooving to the big girl body, time is fleeting and rented with sweat and blood Cancer is a death horse rusting the metal that holds you together, it asks the burning question, how could I have lived better, would I do things different for my loves A smiling shark named Cancer is sitting at a whiskey stained piano, it’s smoking a rum crook cigar that smells nasty, the piano is out of tune, people are dressed in their Sunday Finest trying to dance and they are all waiting with respect, a jazzy dirge follows your procession down the street, I spoke of your beautiful words about jazz, tip-toeing across A stream on slippery rocks, goodbye old friend, people are welcoming below the border, my lady and I will live in a valley with vanilla, and coffee, on the mountain I’ll look for you.
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To Felino By Virgil Kay The smoothn
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written this way for the past few y
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A current favorite poet, Antony Hit
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Blue”, as an example. My interpre
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Constance writes: In many ways, it
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tonight i am weary of wisdom, wary
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FELINO’S LAST POEMS WITH FOWLPOX
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Spiritual You partition these voice
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Felino Soriano's verse: enigmatic,
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There are the symbolists, the surre
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I lean into a silent shout (awed) m
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! You said: "My poems are aspectual
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Wonderful question. No, I have not,
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LAST FELINO POEM in Clockwise Cat P
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Coda By Alison Ross I will always d
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