Jim Moreno, Author of
    Dancing in Dissent:  Poetry for Activism

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     Jim Moreno is a member of San Diego's Langston Hughes Poetry Circle and a past board member of the African American Writers & Artists.  He teaches poetry workshops for gang youth in lockups, children in afterschool programs, and adults who are beginning or practiced poets. 

     Moreno has been published in City Works, The Langston Hughes Poetry Anthology, The Magee Park Poets Anthology, the poetry conspiracy, Tidepools, and others.  He performs with The Three Deuces, a jazz trumpet, dance, and spoken word ensemble with Mitch Manker and Michael Tompkins.  He was the director of the Encanto Boys and Girls Club Children's Poetry Choir from September of 2004 to June of 2009. 

     Moreno is currently initiating a poetry workshop afterschool program at the Queen Bee Art & Cultural Center  in the North Park section of San Diego, California entitled "Bullets Outta Guns".  Jim believes that when adults provide afterschool art or sports programs and 10 children show up, 20 bullets are removed from guns: 10 bullets from police revolvers and 10 more from gang guns.