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Graham’s own voice is a difficult one to follow, as the stream-of-consciousness poems are truly written prayers. Graham’s fascinating method of writing these poems manifests itself in the free-flowing spoken form: she would wake up in the middle of night and write poetry in the darkness until the first light of day. She shared with the audience her belief that the best poems were lost, as she wrote over lines in the obscurity of early morning...
...show’s appeal does not lie merely in its aesthetic assets. Since each piece is so closely tied to the cultural identity of the performers, it is only natural that the performers let some of their personal identity slip into their acts. And perhaps it is the Spoken Word Society’s act that will most explicitly confront and expose the fact that Cultural Rhythms is a production that showcases personal identity. In their performance, they speak out against American consumer culture and the ivory-tower atmosphere of academia that they call “being trapped...
...found that a 1972 Supreme Court decision requires reporters to put subpoenas above sources. "There is no First Amendment privilege protecting journalists from appearing before a grand jury ... regardless of any confidence promised by the reporter to any source," the appeals court ruled last week. "The Highest Court has spoken and never revisited the question." Soon, it may get a second chance...
Though it delves into serious subjects, "Four Immigrants" always remains true to its comic strip nature, telling its stories with charm and good humor. Originally a bilingual text, dialogue spoken between Japanese characters appeared in Japanese, but any interaction with the "whiteys" has been written in the Pidgin English of the non-native speaker. A good deal of credit for the book's readability goes to its translator, Frederik L. Schodt, who has been writing about Japanese comics since the 1980s, and rediscovered "Four Immigrants." Wisely leaving the English as-is, Schodt makes the original Japanese dialogue seem natural without...
...benefit concert dedicated to the victims of December’s tsunami, will bring together more than 90 student artists for a single performance tomorrow night. The multimedia event smoothly combines drama, dance and musical acts, showcasing several prominent performing groups like the Harvard Krokodiloes, Kuumba, Spoken Word Society, and the South Asian Dance Company among many others. All proceeds will be donated to and matched by Habitat for Humanity, who will then distribute funds to various non-governmental organizations throughout Southeast Asia...