Caleb Crow Biography

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”.
Shelley’s: In the defense of poetry

“Music is what flows from the soul when words fail, and one can not remain silent”
Victor Hugo

I constantly speak to people about music, I love music! For me music and poetry are wed in almost perpetual bliss. Hopfully in that last line I didn't seem too pretentious, but anyway music and poetry and their marrage. My playlist is as far reaching as Santana to Jay- Z, John Coltrane to Cage the Elephant, Mozart to Tupac, and my library of poetry is just as far reaching and eclectic. What I love about forms of verse is simple, lyrics, emotion, and intent. I want my poets, rappers, rock stars, blues singers and song writers to challenge me. To make me uncomfortable, make cry, make me angry, make me want make love, I want my poets and singer/song writers to make me feel all the colors and shades, all the rises and falls, all the nuances of this condition called life and with my poetry I hope to give a small piece of that to someone else. I come from the discipline of Hip Hop and even when I try to right in more of a classical style of poetry. Hip Hop along with my rock, blues, soul, and funk influences shine through. As a poetry fan my influences are as follows Frost, Poe, Phyllis Wheatly, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, Emily Dickinson, spoken word greats like: Dalak Braithwaite, Lemon, Oscar Brown Jr., and the entire Ill- Literacy rap, social activist group, and poetry troop, and many more. I just want to try to enrich people’s lives the way these poets have enriched my life, and give hope and art in a time of such turbulent social/political change and upheaval. With all that said I hope you enjoy, and understand that when an artist shares his work he bears his souls, so thank you for getting to know me so intimatly.