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...Poet, rapper and actor Saul Williams recited poetry and discussed the state of the hip-hop music industry before a crowd that filled Longfellow Hall last night...
Williams, who won the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival for his portrayal of an imprisoned street poet in the movie Slam, also discussed the differing ideologies between "slam" poetry and "the black arts movement...
...three weeks had gone by, everything was fine, and I had gone on a mini-vacation. I was like, 'I'm getting out!' and was gone for a week, and then everything was fine, and then there was the last incident. 'My Favorite Poet,' as I call this person, whoever it is, revisited my door again with more foulness written on a flyer on the door. I just freaked out, and I was like, 'I have had enough.' I met with the Masters again, and they called the police. Police came, and Officer Kevin Bryant, who's sort...
More misapprehensions ensue. Plato is particularly incisive on the works of E.A. Poe, a term he believes stands for Eminent American Poet. This writer, Plato declares, "has described the characteristics of the American empire with very great precision. Its inhabitants dwelled in very large and very old houses, which, perhaps because of climatic conditions, were often covered with lichen...
...Diminishment I find thee here and there unclear" is a line that reveals too much about this new book by Graham, a Pulitzer-prizewinning poet. The brilliant imagery that Graham has married to abstract thought in the past is often arid or withheld here, replaced by long drifts of spare and enigmatic statements or imperatives clothed in noble posturing. Yet when the poems do work (see particularly the title piece), Graham can still use language like a philosopher's spade to dig into experience--how we sense and think. These can be intoxicatingly deft moments, close to the ground...