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Urban Renaissance: Youth and Spoken Word
April 18, 2001
Listen/download helpApril marks National Poetry Month, but during every month over the last decade the young in the United States have been speaking out -- in verse -- on issues affecting their lives. While media outlets knock American youth for being disinterested in politics and world affairs, young people gather together and share poetry with themes that run the personal and political gamut. On this program we take a look at how youth in the United States are using poetry as a tool for empowerment and resistance.
Featuring:
Walidah Imarisha, poet; Bryonn Bain, Blackout Arts Collective; Chinaka Hodge, poet; James Kass, Youth Speaks; Tiger Walsh, poet; Antonio Elmo Mims, poet;Bill Hollman, poet; David Yanofsky, filmmaker; Asheena McNeel, poet; Ice Live, poet.
For more information:
Blackout Arts Collective
bryonn@hotmail.com
Youth Speaks/The Living Word Project
The New Literary Arts Center@The Box Factory
2169 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California 94110
415-661-6927 fax: 415-664-0540
www.youthspeaks.org
David Yanofsky, "Poetic License"
415-876-0335
www.poeticlicense.org