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Da Poetry Lounge
Da Poetry Lounge is the largest weekly open mic performance space for poetry in the US. It is located in Los Angeles at the Greenway Court Theatre. History Da Poetry Lounge was founded in 1998 as "Dante's Poetry Lounge" by poets Dante Basco, Ron "Shihan" VanClief, Devan "Poetri" Smith and "Brutha" Gimmel Hooper. Da Poetry Lounge was originally hosted in Basco’s living room for three years before expanding to the Greenway Court Theatre. The DPL has a slam poetry team that performs in national poetry competitions. Performers have to show up to the Tuesday night readings early to sign up to perform. The artists then perform on a first-come-first-served basis. Da Poetry Lounge inspired “Def Poetry Jam” on HBO and on Broadway. In 2010, Javon Johnson published “Manning Up: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Los Angeles' Slam and Spoken Word Poetry Communities”, an essay addressing the prevalence of sexism at Da Poetry Lounge. In 2018, Da Poetry Lounge was hosted by Edwin Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Def Poetry Jam
''Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry'', better known as simply ''Def Poetry Jam'' or ''Def Poetry'', is a spoken word poetry television series hosted by Mos Def and airing on HBO between 2002 and 2007. The series features performances by established and up-and-coming spoken word poets. Performances also include special appearances by well-known actors and musicians, as well as occasional performances by Mos Def himself. Co-created by Bruce George, Danny Simmons, Deborah Pointer, Stan Lathan, and Russell Simmons, the show is a spin-off of the popular '' Def Comedy Jam'' which began airing on HBO in the 1990s. As with ''Def Comedy'', Simmons appears at the end of every episode to thank the audience. The series included historical legendary poets such as, The Last Poets, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka and Sonya Sanchez. It also featured poets, Saul Williams, J. Ivy, Jessica Care-Moore and Lemon. Though technically not a poetry slam, ''Def Poetry'' has become heavily associate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway Theatre
Broadway theatre,Although ''theater'' is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), 130 of the 144 extant and extinct Broadway venues use (used) the spelling ''Theatre'' as the proper noun in their names (12 others used neither), with many performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations also using the spelling ''theatre''. or Broadway, are the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres, each with 500 or more seats, located in the Theater District and the Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world. While the thoroughfare is eponymous with the district and its collection of 41 theaters, and it is also closely identified with Times Square, only three of the theaters are located on Broadway itself (namely the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Bodney
Edwin Bodney is an American slam poet and author of the book ''A Study of Hands'' (Not A Cult Press). He is one of the hosts of Da Poetry Lounge. Various of Bodney's poems have been featured in Button Poetry. He is the author and performer of the works: "Good Morning: A Story of Flight in the Making", and "When a boy tells you he loves you." Personal life Bodney stated "my work is 101 percent autobiographical." He identifies as queer and is based in Los Angeles. He has a degree from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) is a private college in downtown Los Angeles. It offers degree programs in majors including fashion, entertainment, beauty, interior design, and graphic design. The college was founded in .... References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American LGBT poets Poets from Los Angeles {{US-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused COVID-19 pandemic cases, more than cases and COVID-19 pandemic deaths, confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history, deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from Asymptomatic, undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, Nocturnal cough, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Poetry Slam
The National Poetry Slam (NPS) is a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and, occasionally, Europe and Australia, participate in a large-scale poetry slam. The event occurs in early August every year and in different U.S. cities. History The first National Poetry Slam was held at Fort Mason in 1990 in San Francisco. Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' Soft Skull Press. "Chapter Six: Playing Nice; The First National Poetry Slam" Page 45. . It was organized by poet Gary Mex Glazner and featured three competing teams: Chicago ( birthplace of slam), New York City (Nuyorican), and San Francisco (host city). It has been held every year since. 2014).Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' Soft Skull Press. "New York City Poetry Slam Teams" Page 366-369. . From 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yesika Salgado
Yesika Salgado (born 1984) is an American poet. She is the author of poetry collections ''Corazón'', ''Tesoro'', and ''Hermosa''. She is also a co-founder of the poetry collective Chingona Fire. Early life Salgado's parents immigrated from El Salvador and she grew up in Los Angeles. Her father encouraged her reading habits, but wanted her to become a teacher. Salgado dropped out of John Marshall High School when she was 18 years old, and worked a series of retail jobs while writing her poetry. Career In 2005, Salgado started posting her work online at HipHopPoetry.com, where she had created a false identity under the name Yesika Starr. After she was banned three years later for plagiarizing a Ricardo Arjona song, the site's founder encouraged her to read at the open mic night at Da Poetry Lounge, where she began performing under her own name. In 2014, Salgado performed at the National Poetry Slam for the DPL. She later qualified for the 2016 Da Poetry Lounge Slam Team. Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walela Nehanda
Walela Nehanda is a Black non-binary writer, cultural worker, cancer & stem cell transplant survivor, and mental health advocate from Los Angeles, California. In 2020, Nehanda was featured on the 26th Annual Out100 list. In 2022, they were chosen to be a Zoeglossia fellow. Nehanda's book, ''Bless the Blood'', was released in the United States in February 2024, through Penguin Random House. Early life Mental health struggles and advocacy As a teenager, Nehanda volunteered at a crisis hotline for people contemplating suicide. Nehanda struggled with self-harm growing up as a way of coping with overwhelming feelings of anger and hurt. They began getting tattoos as a way to cover scarification, which eventually evolved into a way for them to express themself, their art, and their activism. Name selection Nehanda used to go by the name, KiNG. They got the name from a freestyle rap they did including the line "''ain't no queen when I can rule like a king."'' Walela received th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo is a Dominican-American poet and author. In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People’s Poet Laureate. Acevedo is the author of the young adult novels '' The Poet X'', '' With the Fire on High'', and ''Clap When You Land''. ''The Poet X'' is a ''New York Times'' Bestseller, National Book Award Winner, and Carnegie Medal winner. She is also the winner of the 2019 Michael L. Printz Award, the 2018 Pura Belpre Award, and the Boston-Globe Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children’s Fiction of 2018. She lives in Washington, DC. Early life and education Acevedo was born of Dominican immigrants and raised in Harlem, New York. She is the youngest child and only daughter. By the age of 12, Acevedo decided she wanted to be a rapper, but then realized what she really wanted to do was perform poetry. She then attended the Beacon School, where she met English teacher Abby Lublin. Lublin recruited Acevedo to join her after-school poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyesha Wise
Alyesha Wise, aka "Ms. Wise" is a poet, teaching artist and co-founder oSpoken Literature Art Movement(S.L.A.M). From Camden, N.J., Alyesha currently resides in Los Angeles where she also serves as a teaching artist foStreet Poets, Inc She previously served as the head coach of Da Poetry Lounge's slam team and a co-coach for the Get Lit Youth slam team. Wise co-founded and was a co-host of The Pigeon Presents: The Philadelphia Poetry Slam''.'' She has been featured in a speaking engagement on the TEDx Talk series in which she dedicated the talk to her younger sister and Camden. While in Philadelphia, Wise was a co-host of Jus Words, the longest running weekly open mic in the city at the time. She also founded the organization Love, Us'','' a Philadelphia-based organization and annual production which worked to spread unity and self-love through the arts. The production was a large attraction in the Philadelphia poetry scene and a Twitter trending topic in 2010. She is currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonya Ingram
Tonya Ingram (September 1, 1991 – December 30, 2022) was an American poet, author, speaker, disability activist, and mental health Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior. It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making. Mental health ... advocate. Ingram died on December 30, 2022, waiting for a kidney transplant. Life Education Ingram was a graduate of New York University and Otis College of Art and Design. While at NYU, Ingram performed on the school's poetry slam team, which won the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Ingram founded the team alongside Eric Silver, Matthew Sparacino, and Safia Elhillo. They were coached by Mahogany L. Browne, Mahogany Browne. Performance and poetry Ingram's writing was often about Black feminism and living with Lupus and kidney failure. Ingram performed at the Nuyorican Poets C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Gatwood
Olivia Gatwood (born February 23, 1992) is a poet, writer, and educator on topics that include coming of age, feminism, gendered violence, & true crime. Early life and education Olivia Gatwood was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 23, 1992. Her mother, Jill, is a sex educator and H.I.V. epidemiologist and her father, Byron, is a middle school teacher. She spent three years in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago where she began writing poetry at age 11 at the suggestion of a librarian. Gatwood's continued interest in poetry stemmed from her use of the art form as an outlet for her emotions; in an interview she explained, "teenagers have a lot of feelings and thoughts, but are often told that there's no space for those things to exist. But spoken word is the exact opposite. The more you can express, the better." While still in high school, Gatwood led a collection of women who reported a local bakery to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for sexual harassm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Francisco
Rudy K. Francisco (born July 27, 1982) is an American spoken word poet and writer. He has won several poetry slams and written six books of poetry: ''Getting Stitches'', ''Scratch'', ''No Gravity'', ''No Gravity Part II'', ''Helium'', and ''I'll Fly Away''. He made an appearance on TV One's ''Verses and Flow'' and performed his spoken word poems "Complainers" and "Rifle" on the '' Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon''. Early life Rudy Francisco was born and raised in San Diego, California and is of Belizean decent. He wrote a love poem as part of a writing assignment in his senior year of high school and received high marks for it. Francisco was inspired watching HBO's Def Poetry Jam. He began to go to open mics in his area until they were closed due to gentrification. With a group of local poets and activists called "Collective Purpose", he opened an open mic known as ''Elevated'' in San Diego, which has been open for over ten years. Francisco attended Alliant International Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
