Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Friends,
Come celebrate MKL weekend and poetic voices of resistance and hope in the District of Columbia at the second anniversary of Sunday Kind of Love!
Honoring the Ancestors – In honor of MLK Day, bring poems by activist poets who have come before. And read your own in the great tradition of poetry of resistance. All open mic!
June Jordan - Grace Paley - Walt Whitman - Audre Lorde - Langston Hughes - Muriel Rukeyser - Robert Creeley - Sterling Brown - Sekou Sundiata - Sandy Taylor - Gordon Parks - Pat Parker - Pablo Neruda - Gwendolyn Brooks - Essex Hemphill - Melvin Dixon - Ken Saro-Wiwa - Allen Ginsburg - Corky Gonzalez - and more!
Sunday Kind of Love - Third Sunday of the Month
Sunday, January 20, 4 pm
A Busboys & Poetry Event, hosted by Sarah Browning, DC Poets Against the War and Regie Cabico, Sol & Soul
Busboys & Poets
14th & V Streets, NW, Washington, DC
U Street/Cardozo on the Green Line.
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/, 202-387-POET
For more info: womenarts2@aol.com
Wheelchair accessible.
NEXT: Sunday, February 17, 2008, 4 pm Celebrating Black History Month with African American poets in the anthology, Family Pictures, edited by Kwame Alexander.
