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Whether sharing stages with legendary beat poets or your favorite Hip Hop emcees, Andrew Bell, aka Andru Defeye’s unorthodox writing and performance style has made him a fixture behind microphones around the country. 2020 saw the release of his critically acclaimed Frequency album followed shortly after by his crowning as the youngest Poet Laureate in California capitol history.
From Sacramento to Staten Island and SXSW, Andru Defeye served as the Director of Communications for Sol Collective from 2009-2020.
In 2014 Defeye founded Zero Forbidden Goals, a support system for creatives dedicated to innovating arts equity, experiences, and education. ZFG’s guerrilla art activations including National Guerrilla Poetry Month, Chainlink Poetry, and The Intersection have been covered and recreated around the globe.
Does a storm make the sun stop shining?
I will be scared when the sun is
Don’t forget we are miracles please
Don’t forget we are
creation’s favorite color of chaos
carried away with ourselves
at 67,000 miles an hour
And we
have gotten pretty good at it.
We decipher our location on this big rock
by looking at flaming balls of gas
Through lenses we make
by smashing little rocks
and applying fire to them
Which we also make
It’s wild y’all.
There’s too much
of what we are
to be defined
by what we’re not
And in our purest moments wont we get that
We are the poems they wrote
We are the fires they danced around
They passed us down
from generation to generation
And we’re here now
Isn’t it wild?
How we try and tame it.
Obey your heartbeat
Because the other way around doesn’t work
Forage the darkness for light
Because that’s the easiest place to find it
Pilfer all the joy you can
Stash it in every crevice of this life
Alan Kaufman told me
“Do not let the killers or haters win.”
Jose Montoya told me
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
The sun is not scared.
So neither am I.
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