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Maxwell Despard lives and writes in Virginia Beach. An active poet since 1999, he was the founder and lead moderator of HRPoets for many years, as well as the final MC for the area’s longest running open mic at Casablanca Cafe. He was a regular featured performer with the 40th Street Poetry Collective, reading alongside such notables as Tim Seibles, Robert P. Arthur, Jeff Hewitt and Malcolm Powell. 2007 witnessed the release of his first collection of poetry, Segue through Albuquerque’s Destructible Heart Press. He is currently working on completing his next book of poetry, The God of Penguins, tentatively due in 2013.
As an activist, he has worked and marched with such groups as Food Not Bombs, Virginia Organizing, Virginia Workers Justice Center, Students for a Democratic Society, and Tidewater Hemp Coalition.
Things you can expect to see: poetry (some by me, most by others), nuggets of Taoist insight, my own brand of political commentary, deconstruction, music, snark, things that catch my interest and stuff that I reblog.
Here’s a list of variably pretentious words and phrases that I often like: post-left anarchy, Discordianism, philosophical Taoism, pre-sectarian Buddhism, Zen, post-structuralism, pansexuality, physical cosmology, anti-racism, Situationist / neo-situationist thought, gonzo functionalism, LOL, anarcho-primitivism, negative capability, queer theory, altruistic individualism, third wave feminism, conflict theory, anti-theism, world systems theory, traditional Cynicism / κυνισμός.