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...Parks was having a good day," writes Giovanni at the start of her retelling of the Rosa Parks story. But, as most Americans know, that chilly, ordinary workday of an extraordinary seamstress in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately helped ignite the civil rights movement. Giovanni, a poet and black activist, keeps her evident moral outrage in check as she tells the tale of Parks' bus ride into history, maintaining the same firm, level tone that Parks did when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man. Parks, Giovanni writes, was tired. "She was tired...
...Tickets available from the Middle East box office or through Ticketmaster. $15. (PRC)Clandestino: Rock In Spanish Dance Party. The event will feature Lucybell, a noted, fiery Latin-American band. T.T. the Bear’s Place. 9 p.m. $12. (KF)Saturday, Nov. 19Jim Carroll and The Catholic Boys. Poet-turned-punk Jim Carroll, whose song “People Who Died” can be heard during the opening scene of “E.T.,” arrives in Cambridge with The Catholic Boys for their 25th Anniversary Tour, presented by WFNX and The Middle East. The Middle...
...partner. I feel as if I am in my early 50s, and my wife and students regard me as about that age. People think I am joking when I tell them my age. I have an active life as a writer, speaker, counselor and father. I am also a poet, artist and musician, and I enjoy a happy, productive life. I am aware of my age but also my youth. I accept both. Reza Rezazadeh Platteville, Wisconsin, U.S. Weil's idea of aging gracefully seems to involve living in a cushy bubble. He forgets that many of us have...
...DIED. AMRITA PRITAM, 86, novelist and poet who published her first story collection at age 16 and went on to write more than 60 works exploring the suffering of South Asian women and the violent division of the Indian subcontinent following the end of British rule in 1947; in New Delhi. Born to a Sikh family in what is now Pakistan, Pritam fled to India during the country's partition?a brutal period that she described in her most famous poem, Ode to Waris Shah...
...creation of new genders has become a hobby for those on the fringe. Consider Kit Yan, a “gender queer” Hawaiian poet who will be performing tonight at BGLTSA’s invitation. In one poem, after rolling through several dozen “genders”—including appellations like “polyamorous,” “heteroflexible,” and “boydyke”—Yan solemnly declares, “and that’s just the beginning...There may be as many...