Jim Moreno is an artivist (artist & activist) poet who is not afraid to take on the issues of the day shunned by corporate media: racism, immigration, war, or a criminal presidential administration.

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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 juvenile detention 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 jazz trumpeter Mitch Manker and dancer/choreographer Michael Tompkins He is the director of the Encanto Boys and Girls Club Children's Poetry Choir in Southeast San Diego.

Eusi Kwayana, his friend and fellow artist who wrote the Introduction to Moreno's book "Dancing In Dissent" (www.jimpoet.com)states: â Moreno is not only like all poets, a person with a passion, he is a poet characterized by passionâ¦as a Vietnam Veteran...he is over-certified to feel on these issues.â "Dancing in Dissent" and his cd "reversing the erased: exhuming the expunged" are an artivistâs (artist & activist) voice, resonating with the legacy of Langston Hughes, a voice of freedom against injustice and oppression.