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Poetry, Essays, Short Stories & Platforms

Some More About Patrick A. Howell

Patrick A. Howell

Entrepreneur. Storyteller. Banker.

Since 2010, Mr. Howell has been the Executive Director for the San Diego Investment Conference (SDIC)which he founded.   SDIC has worked with nearly 250 companies and in nearly 17 cities with nearly 100 events nationally and worldwide to locate nearly$5B in prospective funding opportunities.  His companies have been featured on local, regional and national radio and television shows as the Big Biz Show and Stock News Now.   Patrick A. Howell is a financial services professional with nearly 25 years of experience from Market Street, San Francisco to Southern California to Wall Street in global and Fortune 500 companies as Wells Fargo, BNP Paribus, RR Donnelley Financial, Newport Capital Consultants, Africa Connects International and Fleet Boston Financial in capacities as varied as entrepreneur, branch manager, vice president business banker and executive vice president investment banker. 


He has been quoted as a culturalist by NBCBLK and theGrio.com; and other e-zines as XO Jane, and MyBrownBaby.com; he has been noted as a business leader and on the cover of Opportunist Magazine, an industry magazine for the micro capital markets.


His short stories, essays and poems have also been published with journals and e-zines including the Northridge Reveiw, Mandala Journal, Tishman Review, Killens Review and the Xavier Review.   

Culture, Arts and Literature

Why Black Panther Is the Best Film in History

Revolutionary Expression Fuels Culture... and Free Spirits

Why Black Panther Is the Best Film in History

Why Patrick A. Howell believes Black Panther is the Best Film of All Time

Black Panther is Marvel’s first Oscar-winning film. Patrick A. Howell explores the impact of Black Panther on our history and culture, global imagination, establishing the new imagination and Afro form & beyond the award recognition.

Meeting the Great Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Revolutionary Expression Fuels Culture... and Free Spirits

Why Black Panther Is the Best Film in History

Last son of the Harlem Renaissance opens up about being a bestselling author and Civil Rights thinker and leader. 

Revolutionary Expression Fuels Culture... and Free Spirits

Revolutionary Expression Fuels Culture... and Free Spirits

Revolutionary Expression Fuels Culture... and Free Spirits

How Art and Politics Fit Together in Huffington Post Article in the Era of Trump

Maya Angelou. Amiri Baraka. Tupac Amaru Shakur.  Allen Ginsberg. Joni Mitchell. Revolutionaries, renaissance artist or political leaders? The Matrix. V is for Vendetta. Toni Morrison’s Beloved? Prince’s ‘Sign of the Times’? NWA’s ‘Fuck the Police’. Artwork, manifestos or political treatises? 

"Sexually Fluid, Lazy, Over Privileged Surburbanites"

Platinum-Golden - Tori Reid's Healing Memoir Inks Flow and Soul

Revolutionary Expression Fuels Culture... and Free Spirits

Dr. Tom Lutz Travels the World

Dr. Tom Lutz, founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books eviscerates America in his fictional debut, "Born Slippy".   Patrick A. Howell has a revealing conversation with the 2007 American Book winner discussing race in America and the global publishing industry.

Photography + Aesthetic + Design = Color Regency

Platinum-Golden - Tori Reid's Healing Memoir Inks Flow and Soul

Platinum-Golden - Tori Reid's Healing Memoir Inks Flow and Soul

The first time I saw the graphic illustration above, I fell deeply in love.     A sensation of profound sadness balanced with even greater elation and wonder.  Well, what if someone else saw it and realized it was as beautiful as I did? 

Platinum-Golden - Tori Reid's Healing Memoir Inks Flow and Soul

Platinum-Golden - Tori Reid's Healing Memoir Inks Flow and Soul

Platinum-Golden - Tori Reid's Healing Memoir Inks Flow and Soul

Tori Reid is an influencer and public personality

Patrick A. Howell speaks with Hollywood producer Tori Reid about writing, catching dreams, and her forthcoming memoir, Love Yourself Through It. 

Picking Role Models That Count: Parents Have Way More Juice Than Hollywood

Picking Role Models That Count: Parents Have Way More Juice Than Hollywood

Picking Role Models That Count: Parents Have Way More Juice Than Hollywood

 Oscar Awards 2014. Whew, done with the Tinsel Town exceptionally-produced minstrel show. 

‘The Ghanaian Goldilocks’: A Colorful Take On a Classic Tale (REVIEW)

Picking Role Models That Count: Parents Have Way More Juice Than Hollywood

Picking Role Models That Count: Parents Have Way More Juice Than Hollywood

I met Dr. Tamara Pizzoli at the Harlem Book Fair this summer, just around the corner from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; her pavilion at the outdoor festival was a ray of light, absolutely beaming, where many a passerby more often than not, formed a line to purchase her book and talk to the vibrant author. 

Top 5 Funniest Blackish Moments

Picking Role Models That Count: Parents Have Way More Juice Than Hollywood

Top 5 Funniest Blackish Moments

Blackish

“Blackish” is a hilarious potpourri of colorful comedy featuring a variety of opinions and takes on the modern upper middle class family, full of a never-ending diversity of opinions and a marriage commoditized into slapstick.

Platforms Where His Opinions and Articles Are

The Los Angeles Review of Books

The Los Angeles Review of Books

The Los Angeles Review of Books

The Big Smoke Australia

The Los Angeles Review of Books

The Los Angeles Review of Books

HuffPost

The Los Angeles Review of Books

Denene Millner's My Brown Baby, Atlanta

Denene Millner's My Brown Baby, Atlanta

Denene Millner's My Brown Baby, Atlanta

Denene Millner's My Brown Baby, Atlanta

Into the Void Toronto

Denene Millner's My Brown Baby, Atlanta

Into the Void Toronto

LinkedIn Publishing

Denene Millner's My Brown Baby, Atlanta

Into the Void Toronto

Equities, Wall Street

Equities, Wall Street

Equities, Wall Street

Nasiona, Bay Area

Equities, Wall Street

Equities, Wall Street

Poetry & Writers

Equities, Wall Street

Poetry & Writers

Icons, Outliers and Movements

Champion Marvin Lee Mills Queries a Socratic Question

Patrick A. Howell Interviews Nikki Giovanni at Los Angeles Review of Books

Patrick A. Howell Interviews Nikki Giovanni at Los Angeles Review of Books

 “I hope and pray for the unity of the people/ hands clasped initial glance reveals/ I may have the world in my hands/ but this, man is just a man,/ but didn’t God put power in my hands?” 

Patrick A. Howell Interviews Nikki Giovanni at Los Angeles Review of Books

Patrick A. Howell Interviews Nikki Giovanni at Los Angeles Review of Books

Patrick A. Howell Interviews Nikki Giovanni at Los Angeles Review of Books

A Young Nikki Giovanni

"It is widely reported that your Tennessee grandmother, Louvenia Watson, played a huge role in forming your consciousness for justice, love, and righteousness for your people.   Are we in just and loving world."

MCU Cuts Back to Its Origins With a Blade Reboot

Patrick A. Howell Interviews Nikki Giovanni at Los Angeles Review of Books

The Cosby Show and how, 30 years later, visions preceded reality.

The New Blade

Kevin Feige’s brilliant casting of Mahershala Ali in a new Blade feature film would be genius with Wesley Snipes as Whistler.   If Downey's Iron Man is the Root of MCU, Blade is the seed.

The Cosby Show and how, 30 years later, visions preceded reality.

The Cosby Show and how, 30 years later, visions preceded reality.

The Cosby Show and how, 30 years later, visions preceded reality.

https://goodmenproject.com/arts/cosby-usa-gmp/

I had to laugh and just shake my head in quiet disbelief—another article about Phylicia Rashad, America’s mom, and how the Cosby Show of the 80’s was vilified because it thought it was all that. Haters never ever give in do they? 

Enlightened General Writes a New Age

The Cosby Show and how, 30 years later, visions preceded reality.

Enlightened General Writes a New Age

Hard as it might be to believe because of all the dissonance, polarities and turbulence of these times, this is the New Age.  Or, as Nobel Laureate, *General Gabriel Garcia Marquez jested, “If God hadn’t rested on Sunday, he would have had time to finish the world”.   The seeds for the end of systems and a New Age are now sewn.

King & I

The Cosby Show and how, 30 years later, visions preceded reality.

Enlightened General Writes a New Age

Patrick A. Howell and Christian Howell by Photographer Brevin Blach

It’s Black History Month.

My son is 7.  We watch NBA games together in our self-styled man space, the so-called ‘Heat Zone’ – recliners in the loft, championship poster, authentic nunchucks and sling shot, vanilla soda pops, a couple framed rookie cards of King James in his Cleveland Cavalier uniform

“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”

Spirits of Joy, Birds, Trees and Butterflies in the March of Marches

“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”

A young June Jordan spoke those lines into being in 1978 at the United Nations.    The poem was called the “Passion“. The occasion was a commemoration of the 40,000 women and children who presented themselves as a wall of protest against apartheid.  That quote is often taken out of context but has become a clarion call for a generation of Millennials.    

The Gallery that is the World

Spirits of Joy, Birds, Trees and Butterflies in the March of Marches

“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”

Oceanside is an eclectic beach side military town without a lot of pretense.   Unlike other cities up and down the Coast Highway as Malibu, Laguna Beach or La Jolla in San Diego, the real world is very much a part of the working class beach town.   That isn’t to say, it isn’t in the least magical or charming with it’s own set of gravity defying properties.   Because Oceanside also pops. 

Spirits of Joy, Birds, Trees and Butterflies in the March of Marches

Spirits of Joy, Birds, Trees and Butterflies in the March of Marches

Spirits of Joy, Birds, Trees and Butterflies in the March of Marches

"I grew up in Jamaica and moved to Trinidad when I was 10. After about a decade in New York, I moved to St. Croix, USVI where I now live. All of these places have some form of carnival and while each are pretty distinct, they all provide an incredible outlet for celebration, release, storytelling, connection… Coming back to Trinidad this year though was especially significant because, for the first time, I was part of the design team for Lost Tribe. "

Afro-chic, Afropolitan and Proud

Afro-chic, Afropolitan and Proud

Spirits of Joy, Birds, Trees and Butterflies in the March of Marches

 NYC author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is simply impossible to miss.   She has a distinct style braided with magical African couture.   Her intellectual and spiritual je nes sais quoi is as much a part of her appeal as any designer brand.  “I try to work with a lot of up and coming African fashion lines or entrepreneurial brands.” she says, “Ghana, where my parents are from, is a clothier society.   The clothes there are all tailored.” 

Coffee and Flowers

Afro-chic, Afropolitan and Proud

We Are the Greatest of All Time

 

Maybe there are wizards in our midst?  Mystical alchemist time travelers unseen who import the past worlds into the current one? 

I only say this because of the experiences I have had at  Communal Coffee, the North Park Nursery and Native Poppy these last few months.  The world in those walls is a throwback to a magical time.  Or, the invitation of a new one.

We Are the Greatest of All Time

Afro-chic, Afropolitan and Proud

We Are the Greatest of All Time

 Did it ever occur to you that we are the gold?


I often contemplate the wealth of Africa and our inheritance. There is always talk of what was stolen from us. But I mean Africa birthed humanity. And for us folk, darker than blue, melanin is the marker. We are the carriers of Her creative and triumphant spirit across the galaxies. It means that we belong to a special tribe of global and spirit explorers. 

Finance, Esprit de corps and Economics

Milton Bowen Art

​Lions Gate’s Blunder is Disney’s Bounty

#ProfitabilityMatters #EquityEquality #MulticulturismWins
 

Studios like Lions Gate Entertainment are learning the hard way, lessons that were learned long ago were hard earned. Multiculturalism, inclusions and diversity pay handsomely and are rewarded by the marketplace.

AGAPE: The New Economy of NOW

Therein, may be a modern paradox where it seems difficult to sometimes align personal goals with the greater good or lofty ambitions ~ as if they were somehow antithetical.

Suzanne Bryant, Patrick A. Howell and Gary E. Bryant

Microcap Markets as Piston in the Engine American

“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.”—Warren Buffett.  I was right off Newport Coast Highway, at an elevated height—an $8 million mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean and formerly owned by Wheel of Fortune’s Vanna White. The check writer for the mortgage sat in an ornate leather armchair in a mahogany office with columns of green and yellow ticker symbols scrolling his monitors like capitalist minions. But Gary E. Bryant is real.

Newport Beach’s Wall Street Wonder

It’s about empowering the entrepreneur with capital formation and meetings where they can meet potential and dynamic partners.   There is an ecosystem around the world and Global Capital Network wants to pronounce boardroom and panel meetings where investors can review opportunities and engage in important dialogue about capital formation.

Organic Networking

I think, most substantively, I am influenced by my grandfather, Cecil Reynolds, a Jamaican immigrant from Costa Rica who immigrated to Panama City, Panama, with less than a sixth-grade education in 1926 and exemplified both wiles as well as je ne sais quoi working his way up from bartender in the beer garden to manager of a Curundu Post Restaurant Shop in the Canal Zone, entertaining American servicemen. To me, his story represents the best of my mother’s warmth and father’s shrewdness. Also, he was very successful in business in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

How American Progress Really Works

The growth of employment through targeted investment, strategic partnering, and resources that reduce the challenges small businesses face when seeking job creation capital.

Chukwu, The Great Spirit That Conquers

What the World Needs Now Is Not Another Slave Story, Part I: The One Story We Cannot Stop Telling Ourselves

Could 2019, exactly 400 years since slavery and its twin offspring of racism and discrimination, be the year in which racism in America dies?  It is always darkest before the dawn.

(Gordon Parks, “Untitled” Harlem, New York , 1963)

What the World Needs Now, Part II: The Story of Slaves / The Story of Kings / The Story of the Africans in America

In America, in this day and age, it’s time to mine richer material than the tired American Slave Story that chains us. Here are the thought leaders who will take us there.

Poets, Photographers & Publishers

Harriet Tubman Press Launched at Historic Leimert Park in Los Angeles

Harriet Tubman Press Launched at Historic Leimert Park in Los Angeles

Harriet Tubman Press Launched at Historic Leimert Park in Los Angeles

For the past 20 years, Elias Wondimu and TSEHAI Publishers have built a global reputation for telling quality stories that truly matter. Elias is an uncompromising story-teller and in today’s world, people are as hungry for the truth as they are for perspectives they have not previously seen. 

Angling a Photo for Universal Beauty

Harriet Tubman Press Launched at Historic Leimert Park in Los Angeles

Harriet Tubman Press Launched at Historic Leimert Park in Los Angeles

"Some of my greater passions are exploring the outdoors, learning about other cultures, social responsibility, and playing with my cameras. When traveling I enjoy staying in small towns, interacting with the locals, and sleeping under the stars. Most importantly - I like to doodle."

Stardust, Kawayo and Start & End

Harriet Tubman Press Launched at Historic Leimert Park in Los Angeles

Meet Ladan Osman a.k.a. “Charm Charge”, the World’s Most Powerful Mutant Poet

Jenny Farhat’s work is prominently displayed at Ironsmith Coffee Roasters in Encinitas, an ocean-side suburb that runs along the Pacific Coast Highway in San Diego. The framed art pieces line the walls on five by six columns and rows. 

Meet Ladan Osman a.k.a. “Charm Charge”, the World’s Most Powerful Mutant Poet

Meet Ladan Osman a.k.a. “Charm Charge”, the World’s Most Powerful Mutant Poet

Meet Ladan Osman a.k.a. “Charm Charge”, the World’s Most Powerful Mutant Poet

Those words come from a literary talent that continues to emerge and wow international critics, colleagues and audiences alike.  She seems both unaware and completely comfortable at once with her growing powers and immense being.  If you go to the Poetry Foundation site, you will find a relatively prosaic biography of Ladan Osman.

TSEHAI Publishers Renews Visions of Peace and Unity

Meet Ladan Osman a.k.a. “Charm Charge”, the World’s Most Powerful Mutant Poet

TSEHAI Publishers Renews Visions of Peace and Unity

“Stories of our existence both of the good and the bad are the building blocks of our collective  history. Writing, editing, publishing, and distributing them is the only guarantee we have for the good to be honored and celebrated; and for the bad to be lessons learned.”  Elias Wondimu, Harriet Tubman Press, a TSEHAI Press Publisher 

American Lit: An Interview with Jacob Minasian

Meet Ladan Osman a.k.a. “Charm Charge”, the World’s Most Powerful Mutant Poet

TSEHAI Publishers Renews Visions of Peace and Unity

The poem "American Pasture" exemplifies that rawness of which I speak, ending on the line,"his mother tries to split/ a nickel into a childhood." I see those last lines as a condemnation of the MAGA spirit which has coarsened our national discourse from one of progress, hope and faith, to that of bitterness.

Things I Loved about the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

That Funky Cold Medina: An Interview with Tony Medina, Poet and Professor

How a Poet Sets our Moons on Fire; Howling Bill Yarrow, Poet and Gadfly

Here are some of the events, the happenings and the way it went down. There was every version of America- the native American Indian, Muslim, Asian American, African American... the American cosmopolitan.

How a Poet Sets our Moons on Fire; Howling Bill Yarrow, Poet and Gadfly

That Funky Cold Medina: An Interview with Tony Medina, Poet and Professor

How a Poet Sets our Moons on Fire; Howling Bill Yarrow, Poet and Gadfly

in my youth, I was enamored of the moon / - that is to say, lunacy/  I applauded the bizarre in nature/ I appropriated the gratuitous from dreams/ I drank brashness and frenzy from books/  what mad things I did!

That Funky Cold Medina: An Interview with Tony Medina, Poet and Professor

That Funky Cold Medina: An Interview with Tony Medina, Poet and Professor

That Funky Cold Medina: An Interview with Tony Medina, Poet and Professor

“Poet-Sheriff” and Howard University Professor Tony Medina’s craft is getting more potent by the decade. Look out, Trump, the Poet-Sheriff is right there in D.C.

Sports Blogs

The Chosen One

Rise of the SharkHeart

Rise of the SharkHeart

Why We’ve Never Seen an Athlete Quite Like Lebron Raymone James

Rise of the SharkHeart

Rise of the SharkHeart

Rise of the SharkHeart

Junior Olympian and Catholic School Track and Field Star, Fastest Human on Land and in Water

#howtorasiechampions

Rise of the SharkHeart

#howtorasiechampions

LaVar Ball is like a golden dragon who can lay diamond eggs. And instead of marveling at his majesty, you are embarking on a witch-hunt like ignorant villagers with pitchforks and torches.

Black Bird Press by Marvon X Jackmon

Poems by Patrick Howell

spiritually speaking,   These Griots  &   

King Toure Art Man  (artwork and photography by Malik Seneferu)

BlackBird Press

Other Poetry Platforms

Poetry Society of America

Poetry Society of America

Poetry Society of America

The Poetry Society of America's mission is to build a larger and more diverse audience for poetry, to encourage a deeper appreciation of the vitality and breadth of poetry in the cultural conversation, to support poets through an array of programs and awards, and to place poetry at the crossroads of American life. 

Poetry Foundation

Poetry Society of America

Poetry Society of America

 The Poetry Foundation works to raise poetry to a more visible and influential position in our culture. The Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry. 

Southern Literary Review

Poetry Society of America

Southern Literary Review

 The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers. 

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