Additional Info Kayla Q. performing "Rumors" at Write About Now Poetry. About Write About Now: WAN Poetry is a community-oriented collective of poets that meet at Avantgarden in Houston, Texas every Wednesday at 7:30 PM with the purpose of providing a platform for poets to share their work. Information courtesy, YouTube
Sitting in his office at the Museum of the African Diaspora, where he’s served as deputy director since September, Michael Warr holds a copy of the just-out Norton Anthology “Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin,” which he edited with Phil Cushway. “This makes me think of when I first graduated from high school in San Francisco, … Continue reading Poetry as form of protest in new Norton Anthology (via SF Gate)
Additional Info Floetry - Everybody Heard on Def Jam Poetry Information courtesy, YouTube
As hundreds of teenagers thump into their folding seats in the cavernous downtown theater, the poets of Edison High huddle under the dim lights backstage. Turn in a pitch-perfect performance today and make the finals. Otherwise, season's over. The odds are not with them. Since February, when this citywide slam poetry competition started, the team … Continue reading Edison High’s poets use gut-wrenching verse as an antidote to adversity (via Philly)
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Rhode Island For local poetry lovers, Sunday’s program at the Savoy Bookshop and Café should be the perfect ending of the old week ... or the perfect beginning of the new week, depending on how you look at things. And isn’t that what poetry is about? How we look at things ... and how we … Continue reading Savoy readies for an afternoon of poetry on Sunday (via Westerly Sun)
Additional Info Shane Romero is an artist out of Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. He's got a sharp tongue when it comes to his poetry! FOR MORE SHANE ROMERO VISIT: https://twitter.com/ShaneH_H Information courtesy, YouTube
Full Title: "Suzi Quatro pens poetry book saying 'to leave the words inside would have killed me' (via Mirror)" Glam rock icon Suzi Quatro has written her first poetry book saying that if she hadn't put pen to paper it would have "killed her." The singer, 66, who also played the Fonz's girlfriend in Happy Days says Through My … Continue reading Suzi Quatro’s poetry: ‘To leave the words inside would have killed me’ (via Mirror)
Additional Info Subscribe to Button! New video daily: http://bit.ly/buttonpoetry Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, performing at the Button Poetry showcase at the 2015 National Poetry Slam. Hanif's debut book, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, is now available for order. Information courtesy, YouTube
While others will be grilling, tossing the football or catching up with Dad this Sunday, many people in East Liberty will be getting their fill of ... poetry? Janera Solomon, executive director of the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, said poetry readings are not just for academics. “Terrance Hayes and I ... have been talking for a long … Continue reading Celebrating 20 years of black poetry and Cave Canem on Father’s Day (via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
