"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."
- Charles Baudelaire
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Poetry Quote of the Day: Baudelaire
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."
- Charles Baudelaire
One more day left to vote for the Living Poet Tribute!
One more day left to vote for the Living Poet Tribute!
Here's how the vote stands:
Amiri Baraka
10 (12%)
Sandra Maria Esteves
4 (5%)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
8 (10%)
Piri Thomas
4 (5%)
Sonia Sanchez
5 (6%)
Maya Angelou
19 (23%)
Nikki Giovanni
8 (10%)
Jayne Cortez
1 (1%)
Rita Dove
5 (6%)
Tato Laviera
5 (6%)
Maxine Kumin
3 (3%)
Abiodun Oyewole
3 (3%)
Ntozake Shange
5 (6%)
Votes so far: 80
Days left to vote: 1
Legendary Spoken Word Artist Taalam Acey @The Inspired Word - Feb. 3
Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features one of the all-time spoken word greats, Taalam Acey.
*****
In addition to Mr. Acey, there will be a 15-slot open mic (open not only to poets and spoken word artists but fiction/nonfiction writers, comedians, monologists, singers, and musicians).
*****
When: Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011
Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
http://www.oneandoneny.com/
Phone: (212) 598-9126
Time: 7:00pm
Cover Charge: $10
Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.
*****
BIO:
"You have so, so much inspired me with your Spoken Word," said the legendary Stevie Wonder, while interviewing Taalam Acey, during Wonder’s own birthday celebration in May 2008.
Taalam, a child of the Newark Rebellion, was raised by a single mother who was a member of the famed writer and activist Amiri Baraka’s community organization. Acey is an independent artist whose work has been featured frequently on TV One and was selected as the original "number one thing you need to know about" on BET's countdown show, "The 5ive."
Over the years, BET has featured and aired roughly a half dozen segments featuring Taalam Acey. He ranks among the vanguard of artists who use the internet to connect with listeners. Likewise, his YouTube videos have been seen by more than a half million viewers and he has tens of thousands of social network contacts.
The Newark, NJ native’s poetry has appeared in Essence Magazine and Susan Taylor, the magazine’s Editor Emeritus, personally invited Acey to perform for an audience of six thousand at The Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Taalam was honored to be a guest of Congresswoman Maxine Waters for the Congressional Black Caucus' 2007 & 2008 "Young Gifted and Black" panels.
He has shared his work in several countries and approximately one hundred schools of higher education; including the prestigious Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley, where he delivered a lecture on contemporary Spoken Word.
He has recorded more than a dozen CDs and authored four books. Additionally, films that include his work have garnered an Audience Award (2002) and a Special Jury Prize (2006) at the Sundance Film Festival. He was featured in an acclaimed Radio-One London slam poetry documentary and Marc Smith, the founder of slam poetry, used Acey's work in his definitive book. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
For more info, please visit http://www.taalamacey.com/
Friday, January 28, 2011
Poets Ngoma & Oveous @ The Inspired Word's One-Year Anniversary
Performance poets/spoken word artists Ngoma and Oveous @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word NYC spoken word poetry event, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Manhattan, NYC.
The Inspired Word spoken word poetry weekly series celebrated its one-year anniversary with an extravaganza that included an all-star lineup of over 20 of the best performance poets in the New York City area - Patricia Smith, Willie Perdomo, Oveous, Vanessa Hidary, Gemineye, Brian Dykstra, Ngoma, Rico Frederick, Bonafide Rojas, Joanna Hoffman, Erica Miriam Fabri with Robin Andre, Jamaal St. John, Tahani Salah, Sean Patrick Conlon, Nathan P., Osagyefo, Jane LeCroy, Simply Rob, Jane Ormerod, Thomas Fucaloro, Advocate of Wordz, and Eliel Lucero.
The Inspired Word is New York City's hottest new poetry/spoken word series, produced by longtime writer/journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner.
Videographer: Elaine Delehant (http://www.bonobofilms.com/)
Music: Still Loving You by Oveous.
See more spoken word poetry videos @ http://www.youtube.com/user/NYCInspiredWord
Poets Simply Rob & Gemineye @ The Inspired Word's One-Year Anniversary
Performance poets/spoken word artists Simply Rob and Gemineye @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word NYC spoken word poetry event, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Manhattan, NYC.
The Inspired Word spoken word poetry weekly series celebrated its one-year anniversary with an extravaganza that included an all-star lineup of over 20 of the best performance poets in the New York City area - Patricia Smith, Willie Perdomo, Oveous, Vanessa Hidary, Gemineye, Brian Dykstra, Ngoma, Rico Frederick, Bonafide Rojas, Joanna Hoffman, Erica Miriam Fabri with Robin Andre, Jamaal St. John, Tahani Salah, Sean Patrick Conlon, Nathan P., Osagyefo, Jane LeCroy, Simply Rob, Jane Ormerod, Thomas Fucaloro, Advocate of Wordz, and Eliel Lucero.
The Inspired Word is New York City's hottest new poetry/spoken word series, produced by longtime writer/journalist and former Village Voice columnist Mike Geffner.
Videographer: Elaine Delehant (http://www.bonobofilms.com/)
Music: Still Loving You by Oveous.
See more videos @ http://www.youtube.com/user/NYCInspiredWord
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Living Poet Tribute Poll - Only 5 Days Left!
This is the way the poll stands:
Amiri Baraka
9 (12%)
Sandra Maria Esteves
4 (5%)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
8 (10%)
Piri Thomas
3 (4%)
Sonia Sanchez
5 (6%)
Maya Angelou
17 (23%)
Nikki Giovanni
7 (9%)
Jayne Cortez
1 (1%)
Rita Dove
4 (5%)
Tato Laviera
5 (6%)
Maxine Kumin
2 (2%)
Abiodun Oyewole
3 (4%)
Ntozake Shange
5 (6%)
Votes so far: 73
Days left to vote: 5
Monday, January 24, 2011
Best Pics from The Inspired Word's One-Year Anniversary - Part 3
Sean Patrick Conlon
Ngoma
Joanna Hoffman
Erica Miriam Fabri and Robin Andre
Photos By: Peter Woloszyn.
On Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, @ Manhattan's (Le) Poisson Rouge, Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word celebrated its one-year anniversary with a spoken word poetry extravaganza that included an all-star lineup of over 20 of the best performance poets in the New York City area - Patricia Smith, Willie Perdomo, Oveous, Vanessa Hidary, Gemineye, Brian Dykstra, Ngoma, Rico Frederick, Bonafide Rojas, Joanna Hoffman, Erica Miriam Fabri with Robin Andre, Jamaal St. John, Tahani Salah, Sean Patrick Conlon, Nathan P., Osagyefo, Jane LeCroy, Simply Rob, Jane Ormerod, Thomas Fucaloro, Advocate of Wordz, and Eliel Lucero.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Artists On The Cutting Edge: NYC Poet Jayne Cortez
New York poet Jayne Cortez reads a selection of her award-winning work, which vividly reflects the energy, passions, rhythms and tensions of modern urban life from an African-American femininst perspective.
Legendary Performance Poet jessica Care moore @ The Inspired Word - Jan. 27
Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features one of the all-time great performance poets, jessica Care moore! In town from Motown! Don't miss out on this rare chance to see a living legend!
*****
Opening for Ms. moore is award-winning poet Tai Allen.
In addition, there will be a 12-slot open mic (open not only to poets and spoken word artists but fiction/nonfiction writers, comedians, monologists, singers, and musicians).
*****
When: Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011
Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
http://www.oneandoneny.com/
Phone: (212) 598-9126
Time: 7:00pm
Cover Charge: $10
Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.
*****
BIOS:
jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet, playwright, actor, activist, producer and CEO of Moore Black Press. She is the author of The Words Don't Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto, God is Not an American, and a forthcoming book of essays, Literary Apartheid. She has performed her poems and solo theater shows all over the United States, in South Africa, and across Europe. From her Broadway performances at Carnegie Hall, or Harlem's Apollo Theater, London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, to New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, moore believes poems belong everywhere and to everyone.
Her new show, The Missing Project:Pieces of the D is an international storytelling live art music show that features an experimental jazz orchestra and the work of graffiti artist Antonio "Shades" Agee.Her debut rock album, Black Tea will be out when it's finished! moore continues to push the boundaries of genre, with her first conceptual art installation, NANOC: I Sing The Body Electric, opening at Dell Pryor Gallery in 2011. She lives in Detroit, where she is completing her memoir, Love is Not the Enemy, and raising the 4-year old love of her life, King Thomas.
Please visit http://www.mooreblackpress.com/
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Tai Allen is a poet, singer, musician, designer and multi-talented artist. His influences range from Bob Marley and Aretha Franklin to Norman Connor and Gil Scot-Heron to the Beatles and Post-Modernism. His writing and essays have appeared in Bomb Magazine, Uptown Magazine Online, the NYC Underground (France) and the Daily Challenge. Tai's chapbook, Easy Readin, and companion CD, For Easy Readin, have been featured on BET/CentricTV, Soultracks and Nu-Soul Magazine. He is the National Poetry Awards 2010 Winner for best album and was a nominee for best single. A record release party for his new LOVE MUSIC will be held at the famed Apollo Theater on April 4th.
Tai Allen @ Poetz Realm - Beautiful Day Is.... from PoetzRealm on Vimeo.
Best Pics from The Inspired Word's One-Year Anniversary - Part 2
Oveous
Erica Miriam Fabri and Robin Andre
Ngoma
Tahani Salah
Gemineye
The Inspired Word's One-Year Anniversary All-Star Spoken Word Poetry Extravaganza
Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011
(Le) Poisson Rouge
Manhattan, New York City
Photos By: Holly Van Voast
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Watch your...
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny.
- Upanishads
Friday, January 21, 2011
Poets Thomas Fucaloro & Jane Ormerod @ The Inspired Word's One-Year Anniversary
Spoken word poets Thomas Fucaloro and Jane Ormerod @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word NYC spoken word poetry event, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Manhattan, NYC.
The Inspired Word spoken word poetry weekly series celebrated its one-year anniversary with an extravaganza that included an all-star lineup of over 20 of the best performance poets in the New York City area - Patricia Smith, Willie Perdomo, Oveous, Vanessa Hidary, Gemineye, Brian Dykstra, Ngoma, Rico Frederick, Bonafide Rojas, Joanna Hoffman, Erica Miriam Fabri with Robin Andre, Jamaal St. John, Tahani Salah, Nathan P., Osagyefo, Jane LeCroy, Simply Rob, Jane Ormerod, Thomas Fucaloro, Advocate of Wordz, and Eliel Lucero.
Videographer: Elaine Delehant (http://www.bonobofilms.com/)
Music: I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas - Mr. V & Reelsoul Mix) by Oveous
Find more Inspired Word spoken word poetry videos @ http://www.youtube.com/user/NYCInspiredWord
Best Pics from The Inspired Word's One-Year Anniversary - Part 1
Jamaal St. John
Jane LeCroy
Simply Rob
Osagyefo
Thomas Fucaloro
Photos By: Peter Woloszyn.
On Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, @ Manhattan's (Le) Poisson Rouge, Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word celebrated its one-year anniversary with a spoken word poetry extravaganza that included an all-star lineup of over 20 of the best performance poets in the New York City area - Patricia Smith, Willie Perdomo, Oveous, Vanessa Hidary, Gemineye, Brian Dykstra, Ngoma, Rico Frederick, Bonafide Rojas, Joanna Hoffman, Erica Miriam Fabri with Robin Andre, Jamaal St. John, Tahani Salah, Sean Patrick Conlon, Nathan P., Osagyefo, Jane LeCroy, Simply Rob, Jane Ormerod, Thomas Fucaloro, Advocate of Wordz, and Eliel Lucero.
Poets Jamaal St. John & Bonafide Rojas @ The Inspired Word's One-Year Anniversary
Spoken word poets Jamaal St. John and Def Poetry star Bonafide Rojas @ Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word NYC spoken word poetry event, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Manhattan, NYC.
The Inspired Word spoken word poetry weekly series celebrated its one-year anniversary with an extravaganza that included an all-star lineup of over 20 of the best performance poets in the New York City area - Patricia Smith, Willie Perdomo, Oveous, Vanessa Hidary, Gemineye, Brian Dykstra, Ngoma, Rico Frederick, Bonafide Rojas, Joanna Hoffman, Erica Miriam Fabri with Robin Andre, Jamaal St. John, Tahani Salah, Sean Patrick Conlon, Nathan P., Osagyefo, Jane LeCroy, Simply Rob, Jane Ormerod, Thomas Fucaloro, Advocate of Wordz, and Eliel Lucero.
Videographer: Elaine Delehant (http://www.bonobofilms.com/)
Music: I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas - Mr. V & Reelsoul Mix) by Oveous
Find more Inspired Word spoken word poetry videos http://www.youtube.com/user/NYCInspiredWord
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Acting Demo Reel of Inspired Word Artistic Director Brigitte Viellieu-Davis!
The demo reel of Inspired Word Artistic Director and NYC actress Brigitte Viellieu-Davis. Watch clips of Brigitte skillful acting on such great TV shows as All My Children, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, and Blue Bloods.
For more info on Brigitte, please visit her brand new website http://www.brigitteviellieudavis.com/
Monday, January 17, 2011
The Inspired Word's Crime Fiction Night - Thomas H. Cook & Bruce DeSilva - Jan 20
Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word features two of today's finest crime fiction writers, Thomas H. Cook(Edgar Allan Poe Award winner) and Bruce DeSilva (widely acclaimed for his recent debut novel Rogue Island).
In addition to Mr. Cook and Mr. DeSilva, there will be a 12-slot open mic (open to all types of artists).
When: Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011
Where: One and One Bar & Restaurant (downstairs Nexus Lounge)
76 East 1st Street (corner of 1st Avenue)
Manhattan, NYC
http://www.oneandoneny.com/
Phone: (212) 598-9126
Time: 7pm
Cover Charge: $10
Must be 21 years of age or older. Please make sure to bring ID.
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POLL! Which Living Poet Should We Pay Tribute To? Please Make Your Voice Heard!
Which Living Poet Should The Inspired Word Pay Tribute To?
Piri Thomas
Amiri Baraka
Sandra Maria Esteves
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sonia Sanchez
Maya Angelou
Nikki Giovanni
Jayne Cortez
Rita Dove
Tato Laviera
Maxine Kumin
Abiodun Oyewole
Ntozake Shange
Please vote in our poll box down the upper right hand side. Make your voice heard!
POLL ENDS Feb. 1, 2011.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream" Speech - Complete Text
Source: http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html
In 1950's America, the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color — blacks, Hispanics, Asians — were discriminated against in many ways, both overt and covert. The 1950's were a turbulent time in America, when racial barriers began to come down due to Supreme Court decisions, like Brown v. Board of Education; and due to an increase in the activism of blacks, fighting for equal rights.
Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister, was a driving force in the push for racial equality in the 1950's and the 1960's. In 1963, King and his staff focused on Birmingham, Alabama. They marched and protested non-violently, raising the ire of local officials who sicced water cannon and police dogs on the marchers, whose ranks included teenagers and children. The bad publicity and break-down of business forced the white leaders of Birmingham to concede to some anti-segregation demands.
Thrust into the national spotlight in Birmingham, where he was arrested and jailed, King helped organize a massive march on Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. His partners in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom included other religious leaders, labor leaders, and black organizers. The assembled masses marched down the Washington Mall from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, heard songs from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and heard speeches by actor Charlton Heston, NAACP president Roy Wilkins, and future U.S. Representative from Georgia John Lewis.
King's appearance was the last of the event; the closing speech was carried live on major television networks. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King evoked the name of Lincoln in his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The next year, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The following is the exact text of the spoken speech, transcribed from recordings.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering his 'I Have a Dream' speech from the steps of Lincoln Memorial. (photo: National Park Service)
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Friday, January 14, 2011
Major Kudos for The Inspired Word Anniversary All-Star Extravaganza!
"It has been a pleasure to work with you and be a part of your events. You have managed to pull together a wide range of poets and your shows truly depict an appreciation for the diversity of the art form. I hold you and the rest of the Inspired Word folks in very high regard. Thank you for having me as part of the anniversary. It was an honor!" - Gemineye
"it was a night of word majik." - Ngoma
"My congratulations for the extraordinary work you are doing. Long Live Inspired Word!!!" - Claudio Ivan Remeseira, Editor of Hispanic New York
"...a new home for us poets. Its been great!! I can't wait to see the amazing things you guys have planned for the future." - Tahani Salah
"Definitely wonderful." - Jessica Filion
"Last night was amazing. Essence was swimming in poetry last night. It was indeed amazing. Thomas Fucaloro "put it down" as only he can. DJ Eliel's poem about Joleen was amazingly crafted and humorous. Ngoma, ahh, like no other. Man, all of the poets rained science last night. Patricia Smith put icing on the cake so sweet, I broke out the Orajel. Happy Anniversary Inspired Word." - Cyd Charisse Fulton
"It was amazing." - Vanessa Hidary, AKA The Hebrew Mamita
"Absolutely perfection last nite! Amazing and stupendous...Congrats on the one year anniversary and continued overwhelming blessings in this 2011! Last nite was top notch!" - Ed Toney
"Great crowd, great assortment of artists, great night!" - Adriana J. Borzellino
"It was a really special night and I am honored to have been included. Congratulations on a great show." - Jane Ormerod
"If you couldn't attend, you missed a helluva show." - Maria Escribidora
"I feel like I had a seven-course meal!" - Stephanie Rogers
"The Inspired Word tonight was awesome!!!! What an amazing showcase!!!" - Yasmeen Duncan
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Great Inspired Word Logos by Graphic Designer Nelson Salis
Please check out the website of NYC art director and designer Nelson Salis:
http://nelsonsalis.carbonmade.com/
nsalis@mindspring.com
Phone
(646) 431 9256
Areas of Expertise
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