We are happy to announce that “Four Crescents” is now available, by poet Norm Mattox. We hosted an amazing virtual launch in June 2023, and if you missed it you can check out the archived video of the Facebook livestream on our page. You can purchase the book here, or reach out to the author or to us. We will make sure that you can get a copy!
Norm Mattox is a poet, returning to New York, after raising a family, and “growing up” in San Francisco for over 30 years. He served as a bilingual educator in the public school system of San Francisco Unified School District. Though retired, Norm is a teacher (‘maestro’ in Spanish) for life. His next journey for teaching and learning is through the voices in his poetry that tell a story of love in a time of struggle and challenge.
Norm has shared his poetry as a featured reader and at open mics around the San Francisco Bay Area, select venues in New York City and other parts of the world across the ‘zoom universe’. Norm’s poetry has been published in two chapbooks. his first collection is titled, Get Home Safe, Poems for Crossing the Community Grid. Norm’s second chapbook length collection, Black Calculus, was published in 2021 by Nomadic Press.
“In his follow up to Black Calculus, MATHMattox takes readers on a journey of beautifulepiphanies and gruesome truths, painted with masterful wordplay where his pen becomes
his Saber. In these pages, MATH invites readers to step into his vast imagination to see
life, days, nights and words in new and refreshing ways.
Tackling issues that rest on tongues of revolutionaries and conspiracy theorists alike,
these pages are filled with clarity, honesty and color from the purest palette. From “Heart
of Illusions,” filled with a treasure of emotions, to the stunning ekphrastic “Cotton
Bowl,” readers are delighted in walking in the footsteps of a Poet that gives his all in this
work.
Even in the midst of “Tumbling Walls,” with the ever-changing racial climate, “A
Smiling Totem” emerges to shine a light of truth on shadows of doubt and fear, keeping
people stuck in a past that’s never returning. The title poem, “Four Crescents,” is a
perfect introduction to the importance of not simply understanding but critical thinking in
regard to CRT. Do yourself a favor, add these calculations to your library – they help, to
deal with the variables of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in America.
Elemen2al
Poet, Author, Host, Activist
