.."Just Sayin'!!"

Larry's poetry basically pays homage to the strength and beauty of his ancestors from whom he has gained knowledge, wisdom, pride, and understanding. His intense concentration on his craft/art form and his driving desire to teach and educate people via Poetry or Spoken Word, gives him an emotional high. As an informed artist, Larry Roland has an in depth knowledge of the effects that words have on his audiences and as such he performs with an attitude of excitement and adventure. He has worked hard in his challenge of transferring this emotion and excitement onto the written page. He is experienced, yet he is always sharpening his skills to maintain his authenticity, his cultural connection, and to give the best of himself. His passion for Poetry and Spoken Word coupled with improvisational music is almost without equal, thus his subtle sweetness is disarming and seductive which adds another dimension to the man who's writing and voice has truly withstood the test of time.

Larry's poetry basically pays homage to the strength and beauty of his ancestors from whom he has gained knowledge, wisdom, pride, and understanding. His intense concentration on his craft/art form and his driving desire to teach and educate people via Poetry or Spoken Word, gives him an emotional high. As an informed artist, Larry Roland has an in depth knowledge of the effects that words have on his audiences and as such he performs with an attitude of excitement and adventure. He has worked hard in his challenge of transferring this emotion and excitement onto the written page. He is experienced, yet he is always sharpening his skills to maintain his authenticity, his cultural connection, and to give the best of himself. His passion for Poetry and Spoken Word coupled with improvisational music is almost without equal, thus his subtle sweetness is disarming and seductive which adds another dimension to the man who's writing and voice has truly withstood the test of time.

Larry Roland is a poet, musician and educator who loves good food, and loves to travel. After retiring from three and a half decades of teaching and preparing young people in Boston for life's challenges, he decided that New York City was the only place that could sustain the exhilaration that he got from teaching young people. There he could immerse himself in a potpourri of sounds, languages, tastes, smells and colors in his desire to share his experiences through poetry and music ..JUST SAYIN'!!, is the first of many literary pieces influenced by that exhilaration!