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Politics of poetry. (Culture).(commercial exploitation of poetry, poets; expectations of poetry audiences)
"I wonder what all the conservative or right-wing poets are doing these days?" asks Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles poet and author of the award-winning Bath water Wine and Mercurochrome, who has been writing and performing for 30 years.
Whether poets perform and publish or choose to do one of the two, those who align themselves with the struggles of their communities are continually tested in a capitalist system that commodities what all artists and writers create. A poet who talks generally about conservation may get significantly more attention from larger, whiter audiences than a poet who examines environmental racism and tells stories about the lack of universal ...
- NEA awards four brothers in verse.(National Endowment for the Arts)(Cyrus...
- Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review Lansana, Quraysh Ali March 1, 2005 700+ words
...significantly, the 2004 class of Cyrus Cassells, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess and Kevin Young are all poets. This year heralds the first...He teaches poetry courses at Carnegie Mellon University. Tyehimba Jess, a recent graduate of New York University's MFA program...
- Tyehimba Jess.(recieved Whiting Writers' Award)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review Dodson, Angela P. March 1, 2007 700+ words
Tyehimba Jess was among 10 recipients of the 2006 Whiting Writers' Awards. The awards, which are $40,000 each, are given annually to emerging...
- In other voices: the millennial poets and personae.(POINTS OF VIEW)(Tyehimba...
- Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review Dungy, Camille March 1, 2006 700+ words
WHEN I ASKED TYEHIMBA JESS, AUTHOR OF THE RECENTLY published collection Leadbelly (Verse Press, 2005), why he wrote his poems in the voice of the titular...
- Spoken word audio in Europe. (duplication)
- Magazine article from: Tape-Disc Business Daley, Dan January 1, 1995 700+ words
The spoken word audio duplication market, already...manufacturer calls Europe's only "mature" spoken word market; the continental countries...Economic Community trade agreements, spoken word in Europe is expected to grow considerably...
- The spoken word sector: alive and kicking. (audio tape industry)(REPLItech...
- Magazine article from: Tape-Disc Business August 1, 1996 700+ words
...However, with the growth of the spoken word segment, including audio books, self...changes that have taken place in the spoken word marketplace, with a view toward the future. WHAT IS SPOKEN WORD AUDIO? "The Audio Publishers Association...
- Working with producers of spoken word audio. (includes information on packaging...
- Magazine article from: Tape-Disc Business November 1, 1991 700+ words
Working With Producers of Spoken Word Audio In a recent interview with...department, discussed the growing spoken word audio market and what audio duplicators...help their clients enhance their spoken word programming. According to Boyle...
- Spoken-word poetry winner to open for Common.
- Newspaper article from: Record (Stockton, CA) March 3, 2006 700+ words
...STOCKTON - The city's best young spoken-word poet will open for one of the country...Podesto IMPACT Teen Center. A slam is a spoken-word poetry competition, and first prize...Stockton-based organization that promotes spoken-word poetry, is organizing the slam in conjunction...
- Spoken word marches on. (audiobooks or spoken word audio tape...
- Magazine article from: Tape-Disc Business Daley, Dan June 1, 1998 700+ words
...finds no better application than in the spoken word audio tape business. No one's lying...Associates estimated last year that spoken word recordings accounted for over 600 million...decade ago, estimates that 680 million spoken word cassettes were sold in 1997, versus...
Source: HighBeam Research, Politics of poetry. (Culture).(commercial exploitation of poetry,...