What others say about
B.F. Maiz:

 

"...I would like to thank you once more for your extraordinary performance at the unversity. Not only the students, but the faculty and staff were deeply moved by your passionate and touching words, your kindness, and sense of humor."
Mariela Gonzalez
Office of Student Life
University of Charlston, 02/27/02


"His poetry recitation was one part poetry, one part theater and one large part deep philosophy and humanism. The audience loved it."

Dr. Jan Carlson
Director, Student Activities
Oklahoma State University

"His Poetry is meta-empirical...it goes beyond experience."
Professor Ishmael Bustinza
Dept. of Foreign Languages, UNT
Denton, TX

"Without you, our conference would have been a mere educational event, but with you it was magical."
Dr. Frank Thomas
Family Therapis, AAMGT
Dallas, TX

"The poet rapped for a while...out came a barrage...a cannonade of beautiful words
that hung on the air, then went off into space...into the cosmos."

Horace J Bond
Professor of African American Studies
University of Kansas

"You were the hit of the entire conference. You willingness to participate enhanced the program
and helped attract a record number of registrants."

Melissa J. Leehan, M.A.
Program Chairperson
American Academy of Psychoterapists

"By serving as a mentor to me the poet helped me to see and bear refreshing ways
of being and becoming and thus inspired me to serve as a mentor to others."
Tyrone White
Graduate Student
John Carroll University
Cleveland, Oh

"I was impressed by the poet's versatility...poetry...leadership...music...drug and alcohol therapy...history. And, they were all presented magnetically."
Deana Heisler
Director Student Activities
Black Hills State University

"I fear words fail me but please accept my deeply felt gratitude for the exhausting day you spent with our Learning Community. The skills you taught were useful...the dialogue healing."
Dr. Jerry E. Wood
VicePresident for Student Affairs
Waynesburg College

"The power of his voice and the rhythm of his words have a distinct identity of their own."
Eric Lukas
Colorado State University

"To hear his poetry is to hear TRUTH spoken eloquently."
Dr. Aaron Porter
Dept. of Sociology
University of Illinois