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...urging him to strike against the weakened Kurds. Even the Kurdish people are becoming frustrated with their leaders. "This is the worst time in our history, because it is Kurd killing Kurd," says Shazad Saib, a Talabani representative in Ankara. "We are destroying our newly found homeland." A Kurdish poem laments: "Red roses are the blood of brother slain by brother. When will the mountain rose no longer smell of my brother's blood?" Perhaps never...
...tune that did come off very well involved a vinyl recording of Maya Angelou reading her Pulitzer Prize-winning poem, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." DJ Apollo sampled and scratched Angelou's voice over a relaxed beat one verse at a time, each one followed by emphatic Marsalis horn lines that cleverly reflected and refracted the intonation of Angelou's speech. The effect was very cool indeed...
...From her poem "Winnie," she quoted, "A poem doesn't do everything for you./You are supposed to go on with your thinking./You are supposed to enrich/The other person's poem with you extensions,/Your uniquely personal understandings,/Thus making the poem serve...
Brook's presentation was only one part of theCelebration of Black Women, an event that began onFriday night with "Phenomenal Woman"--named afterthe poem by Maya Angelou--and ended on Saturdaynight with a semi-formal gala in Adams House...
Ending the open mike, organizer Michael Brown welcomes us to the "Cambridge version of the internationally-renowned poetry slam." Every Wednesday night, up to eight people face each other, presenting an original poem in each of four rounds. The winner gets $10. "Enough to keep you in mac and cheese for a week," mouths a spectator to the man across from...