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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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Andru Defeye

Flommist Andru Defeye is the Emeritus Poet Laureate of Sacramento.

Andru Defeye
Wed 28 Oct 2026

six

The num­ber of peo­ple I’ve talked to this week that have told me sto­ries of be­ing sui­ci­dal and ei­ther asked for my

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Andru Defeye
Tue 22 Sep 2026

wat kind of artist?

I heard, “I didn’t know you were THAT kind of artist” a few times this past week. Cre­ative Di­rec­tor is one of my

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Andru Defeye
Fri 18 Sep 2026

we put poets on billboards in sacramento

Went on a hunt and found the bill­board last night.  It’s of­fi­cial­ly Sac Po­et­ry Week sea­son! I just wan­na pub­licly give these two

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Andru Defeye
Thu 8 Jan 2026

she was a poet

Been pret­ty fucked up all night over the mur­der of this woman. She was a poet and a fel­low mem­ber of the

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Andru Defeye
Wed 17 Dec 2025

enough

Wan­na help make a dream come true?  It takes ten sec­onds. Just go to this link. And en­ter “Enough by An­dru De­f­eye” if

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Andru Defeye
Sat 18 Oct 2025

what does solidarity actually look like?

To­day mil­lions of peo­ple across the US ral­lied against an in­cen­di­ary au­thor­i­tar­i­an regime. I use the word ral­ly be­cause that’s what it was. 

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Andru Defeye
Thu 11 Sep 2025

i make art. i don’t argue in comment sections.

poem: on char­lie kirk the white su­prema­cist be­ing mur­dered in broad day­light      1. It is pos­si­ble to un­der­stand why some­thing is or

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Andru Defeye
Mon 18 Aug 2025

real solidarity

Cal­i­for­nia Gov­er­nor Gavin has done some wack things. The way he’s stand­ing up to Trump right now isn’t one of them. 

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Andru Defeye
Mon 16 Jun 2025

organize. centralize. revitalize.

Shoutout and BIG love to every­one who went to their first protest this week­end. We’re so hap­py you’re here. WEL­COME. We need you. 

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Andru Defeye
Fri 13 Jun 2025

we do not negotiate with terrorists

From a pure­ly cap­i­tal­ist stand­point, it’s coun­ter­in­tu­itive. And from a hu­man stand­point it’s a vul­gar dis­play of de­hu­man­iza­tion.  The 4th largest economy

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Andru Defeye
Sun 9 Feb 2025

pharisees

Dear Chris­tians, You are not per­se­cut­ed or op­pressed in Amer­i­ca. You nev­er have been.  No one is bi­ased against you be­cause of your

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Andru Defeye
Sat 28 Dec 2024

do you get ‘lost in your work’ – ?

In the 1970s, psy­chol­o­gist Mi­haly Csik­szent­mi­ha­lyi stud­ied why peo­ple feel hap­pi­est when ful­ly ab­sorbed in what they’re do­ing.  He called it the

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Andru Defeye
Fri 8 Nov 2024

paths become trails

You said: What pow­ers Trump­ism?  Chat­G­PT said: Fear & Iden­ti­ty. You said: What pow­ers fear and iden­ti­ty?  Chat­G­PT said: Un­cer­tain­ty & Be­long­ing. You said:

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Andru Defeye
Tue 15 Oct 2024

sac poetry week oct 20 thru 26 – it’s all fire

  Last week I was at CitySound Sound­byte (CSSB) for a pho­to shoot with Grace and Deb­bie.  Grace and I have been

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Andru Defeye
Mon 12 Aug 2024

b‑girl raygun

The vi­ral last place break­dancer is a lec­tur­er at Sydney’s Mac­quar­ie Uni­ver­si­ty with a PhD with her the­sis fo­cus­ing on the intersection

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Andru Defeye
Tue 6 Aug 2024

‘her talent and hard work’

“The Al­ger­ian box­er was born fe­male, was reg­is­tered fe­male, lived her life as a fe­male, boxed as a fe­male, has a female

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Andru Defeye
Wed 31 Jul 2024

andru x ted: the poetics of ice cream and fragile masculinity

Sacra­men­to Poet Lau­re­ate An­dru De­f­eye fus­es sto­ry­telling and spo­ken word po­et­ry to ad­dress frag­ile mas­culin­i­ty and men­tal health strug­gles in a powerful

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Andru Defeye
Wed 10 Jul 2024

r.e.m.

                                        How fast asleep do I have to fall on a city street for it to be il­le­gal?                                         My guess is they

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Andru Defeye
Wed 8 May 2024

how beautiful to wake up to

Last night, I went out to the Sac State en­camp­ment to share some words and some love along­side my broth­er Coon the

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Andru Defeye
Mon 1 Apr 2024

poetry month, local – sac literary festival starts tonight

Po­et­ry Is How We Speak Our­selves Into Ex­is­tence. —On Po­et­ry by An­dru De­f­eye   Hap­py Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Month from my­self and The Academy

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Andru Defeye
Sat 30 Dec 2023

past year

This year start­ed amidst a storm pray­ing we would keep our pow­er and fol­lowed like that most of the year My new ther­a­pist upon meet­ing me

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Andru Defeye
Wed 25 Oct 2023

how do you celebrate poetry?

The re­turn of the clas­sics. Thanks to David for com­ing with. Love you fam. Sacra­men­to Po­et­ry Day is on Thurs­day [oc­to­ber 26], high­light­ed by

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Andru Defeye
Mon 23 Oct 2023

a packed, magical house

Last night I got to wit­ness some real cre­ative mag­ick.  Nat­achi Mez’s Fire: Breath­ing in the Wild – A Night of Live

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Andru Defeye
Sun 18 Jun 2023

re: counting on the city of sacramento

Been re­al­ly mar­i­nat­ing on this con­ver­sa­tion I had last week­end about per­son­al de­vel­op­ment as an an­swer to the City up­hold­ing harm­ful practices

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Andru Defeye
Fri 12 May 2023

i graduated!

And I feel like my­self again.  In Feb­ru­ary, I had a trau­mat­ic men­tal health episode that al­most cost me a whole lot that

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