I know what I’m doing this Saturday afternoon: “Punk Poet” Paul Dickinson (founder of the Riot Act Reading series) is hosting “Midway on My Mind,” an idiosyncratic cultural tour of St. Paul’s University Avenue. A native of the Hamline-Midway area, Dickinson will regale the group with stories from his own history with the neighborhood, while [...]
In the sweltering heat of another muggy Miami afternoon, the exuberant teens from Project L.E.A.P. stormed Lincoln Road and performed songs, recited poetry and spoken word in a semi-random act of self-expression and
Poetic Peace Arts (a Knight Arts grantee) regularly hosts Poetic Peace Open Mic events at JD’s Drama and Dinner Theater in downtown Macon. Along with open mic sets, Poetic Peace also features regional and nationally known spoken word artists and writers. According to Y-O Latimore, of Poetic Peace Arts, spoken word artist Oak Morse and [...]
The Tigertail Spoken Word Workshops and Slam begins Thursday, June 27th at Miami Beach Botanical Garden with free workshops for Miami-Dade teens (13-19 years old). All City Slam starts off with an afternoon of intensive
Edge Zones presents the 2013 Miami Performance International Festival. Curated by Charo Oquet, the festival obliterates the line between viewers and mid-career and emerging artists from Miami and around the world.
Have you heard of St. Paul-based writer Wang Ping’s “Kinship of Rivers” project? It’s an ongoing interactive public art endeavor intended “to build kinship among communities along the Mississippi and Yangtze, and bring awareness to the river’s ecosystem through art, literature, music, food and installations of river-flags made by river communities.” Spurred by a decade [...]
Just because National Poetry Month and the O, Miami Poetry Festival are over, it doesn’t mean the world will come to an end—at least
If you ever wanted to dress up as your favorite dead poet, it’s time to drag out your Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost and Hafez costumes for O, Miami’s “Poetry is Dead” parade. The parade
If you ever wanted to get a tattoo while listening to poetry, then rush over to the Broken Shaker on Friday, April 26th at 7:30 p.m., when Tom Healy and Kevin Young will read their poetry
“Democracy runs on empowerment. If a population doesn’t feel empowered, it won’t exercise its rights. Making art makes us feel human, and to feel human is to feel capable of anything.” —P. Scott Cunningham, founder of the O, Miami Poetry Festival. For P. Scott Cunningham, poetry means fun, truth, democracy and empowerment. That’s why he [...]
