Delighted
 

"Special News Announcement"
 

The make of ache...

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVD-HsHoUNM&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Lost Count: A Love Story[/nomedia]

the magic of words
 

enjoy

Greco

Awesome
 

In Honor-A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde Trailer -TWN
 

This video is most appropriate in this thread

I read her "Cancer Journal..." this past March it moved me
as all of her work always and continues to open my heart

To a profound poet -teacher -activist
Thank you for all you shared with us
and the courage you taught us how to
find in the face of such a challenge.

Greco

Mother, Traitor, Lover: A Tale of Three Mestiza Spirits Pt. 3, Gloria Anzaldua
 

This video is dedicated to Gloria Anzaldua, it
is the third part in a one woman show which
brings to life three mestiza women
La Malinche, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, and
Gloria Anzaldua through dance, storytelling
and poetry.


In Honor of Gloria Anzaldua
Artist-Poet-Activist

My friend my teacher I honor you.

Te echo de menos esta noche
y te mando un abrazo muy fuerte
Greco

Leonard again
 

Asi es mi Bella

Greco

Posted especially for the last one:

Commercial Break

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Paul Martinez Pompa has lived in the Chicagoland area for most of his life. He studied at the University of Chicago and at Indiana University, where he received his MFA in creative writing. His chapbook, Pepper Spray, was published by Momotombo Press in 2006. He currently teaches English at Triton College. His writing has appeared in After Hours, Borderlands, and Rhino.

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The man reading the poem is not the poet. He is a poet though, and I ran across this reading while looking for a poem he wrote regarding a wolf - which I cannot find on YouTube. I did hear a section of it in the poetry foundation's poetry lectures podcast which I recommend if you are as nerdy-in-love with poetry as I am.

"... fighting headaches, because black men will never pick cotton even if its from a fucking aspirin bottle..."

http://youtu.be/cIbx1e-O-Jo

D€f Jam ft. Common
 

huge respect for Saul Williams (Def Jam poetry)
 

I think I've posted this before, but this is probably my all-time
favorite "spoken word" artist, speaking politically on "coded language:" Saul Williams.

Jill Scott (Def Jam Poetry)