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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
Sun 16 Apr 2023

re: it’s not either/or – it’s both/and

“Proud boys and a Nazi tried to in­ter­rupt a Drag Queen Sto­ry Time event, but were pushed out by over 75+ community

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Andru Defeye
Fri 24 Mar 2023

april: month of poetry, take a look

“Defeye’s non-tra­di­­tion­al path as a poet helped him with the pan­el. Bris­bane called it ‘one of the things that made it apparent

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Andru Defeye
Fri 17 Mar 2023

being green

He. Was­n’t. A. Saint.  His. Name. Was­n’t. Patrick.  He. Was­n’t. Even. Irish.  He. Was. A. Col­o­niz­er.  That guy that y’all are de­ter­mined to celebrate

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Andru Defeye
Mon 2 Jan 2023

this year I will

Re­mem­ber who I am For­get who I was Write a new sto­ry Edit all the old ones Push gen­tler Breathe deep­er Nur­ture whole­ness Ex­tend for­give­ness to

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Andru Defeye
Thu 8 Dec 2022

retro’14

Be­fore I was Sacra­men­to Poet Lau­re­ate,  I was a rap­per who had a skate team and an imag­i­nary pink go­ril­la best friend

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Andru Defeye
Sun 30 Oct 2022

sacramento: city of poets

I got $15,000 and gave every cent to the po­ets in my city. We got a res­o­lu­tion from City Coun­cil that ac­knowl­edges the

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Andru Defeye
Wed 19 Oct 2022

our day: sacramento poetry 26 October 2022

Peo­ple keep call­ing it Na­tion­al Poet Day or In­ter­na­tion­al Po­et­ry Day.  It’s not. It’s SACRA­MEN­TO PO­ET­RY DAY.  JUST THE CITY. JUST OUR PO­ETS.  OUR DAY. NEXT

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Andru Defeye
Wed 21 Sep 2022

sac poetry day: we’re documenting this generation of sacramento voice

The homie said that they didn’t un­der­stand what I was do­ing at first and that I need­ed to break this part down

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Andru Defeye
Wed 3 Aug 2022

i never considered myself a real poet

REAL po­ets wore berets and ar­gued about whether Keats or Whit­man wrote a bet­ter poem about Au­tumn.  I just wrote.  To keep my­self alive.

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Andru Defeye
Wed 29 Jun 2022

both of my parents are ministers in the christian church

I like to say, “40 years. No Cadil­lacs. No scan­dals.” I have seen every­thing that is right with that re­li­gion. I love

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Andru Defeye
Wed 15 Jun 2022

two in two days

That’s the num­ber of com­mu­ni­ty lead­ers I’ve had break down to me in the last 48 hours, ex­haust­ed and feel­ing aban­doned and

Mor 

Andru Defeye
Fri 25 Mar 2022

compliments of the compliment

In 2021, a unique se­ries of stud­ies on the ef­fects of com­pli­ments was pub­lished in Per­son­al­i­ty and So­cial Psy­chol­o­gy Bul­letin.  The first

Mor 

Andru Defeye
Sun 13 Mar 2022

no one told me

I should’ve known.  But one of you should’ve told me.  I got all the way into the bel­ly of the beast and didn’t even know. 

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Andru Defeye
Fri 4 Feb 2022

mor joy

So I’ve been ta­per­ing off of so­cial me­dia a lit­tle bit and it feels great.  I didn’t re­al­ize how much I was tricking

Mor 

Andru Defeye
Wed 29 Dec 2021

this year

This year I was a re­nais­sance. This year I put ros­es on graves I prayed I’d nev­er see. This year I found out

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Andru Defeye
Thu 25 Nov 2021

mac is on point

Thanks­giv­ing is so over­rat­ed.  Out­side of be­ing the ob­vi­ous cel­e­bra­tion of geno­cide and the dis­gust­ing white­wash­ing of his­to­ry that it is (make

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Andru Defeye
Mon 25 Oct 2021

🎶 i take a piece of you with me 🎶

Dear Sacra­men­to, In case you haven’t no­ticed we’re hav­ing an­oth­er huge wave of in­cred­i­ble artists leav­ing the city.  Can we PLEASE fig­ure out

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Andru Defeye
Sun 12 Sep 2021

:: exhales and relaxes shoulders ::

“shoutout to every­one that’s also in the lim­i­nal space: the tran­si­tion place where you’re in be­tween the things you left be­hind and the beau­ti­ful places

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Andru Defeye
Sun 4 Apr 2021

i say and i do

I al­ways wave and say what up to the kids on my block.  They know me as the weirdo art guy with the

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Andru Defeye
Sun 3 Jan 2021

where’s your joy at?

2020 was a year we sat with our­selves, the high­est ones and the low­est ones. The light ones and the shad­ow ones.

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Andru Defeye
Sun 4 Oct 2020

illicit, newsprint, for elijah

Both of my grand­moth­ers have been gone for some years now. And last Sun­day, I was wait­ing for Ms. Rita from next door

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Andru Defeye
Sat 8 Aug 2020

good morning earthlings

  “Andru’s al­ways talk­ing all that woo woo man­i­fes­ta­tion shit.”   The CIA ain’t think it’s woo woo. the cia fuck­ing con­firmed tran­scen­den­tal meditation,

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Andru Defeye
Wed 1 Jul 2020

big words: beyond mirriam, webster

Y’all. So I wrote this work­shop over the past few days based on this feel­ing that we don’t have big enough words.

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Andru Defeye
Fri 5 Jun 2020

sacramento + white supremacy: eyes wide y’all

“Three Neva­da men with ties to a loose move­ment of right-wing ex­trem­ists ad­vo­cat­ing the over­throw of the U.S. gov­ern­ment have been arrested

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Andru Defeye
Wed 3 Jun 2020

in a city that is known around the world for police murder …

WHY ARE THE PO­LICE NOT WEAR­ING BODY CAMS???? THIS IS IL­LE­GAL. Re­ceipts: CITY OF SACRA­MEN­TO: BODY WORN CAM­ERA PROJECT From cre­den­tialed journalist

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