Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Ted Joans

Born: July 4, 1928
Died: April 25, 2003 (aged 74)
Bio: Theodore "Ted" Joans was an American jazz poet, surrealist, trumpeter, and painter. His work stands at the intersection of several avant-garde streams and some have seen in it a precursor to the orality of the spoken-word movement.
Known for:
- Black pow-wow (1969)
- Teducation (1999)
- Our thang (2001)
- Afrodisia (1970)
- A black pow-wow of: Jazz poems (1973)






