Tag: Poetry
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I’m Going Gifting @ Occupy Wall Street. Want To Join Me?
Tomorrow I’ll be arriving in New York where I’ll be staying for a few days. I’ll be speaking at (and attending) a cool conference on the future of digital culture and education called Mobility Shifts at The New School. (My talk is Saturday at 2:30 pm, Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building 65 West 11th St.,…
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Array of Words and The Manilla Street Kid Digital Gift Economy
Last night at the Capital Slam I met a poet who recently returned from several months in the Philippines and Nicaragua. In both countries he gave numerous poetry workshops. Very cool. He is a hard-hitting poet whose piece about the selling of girls into sexual slavery in Asia last night was brutally intense. His name…
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Slammin’
I’ve had a nasty prejudice against Poetry Slams ever since I led the first Canadian team to the first National Poetry Slam in San Francisco in 1992. That event was so so unsatisfying in so many ways – so self-indulgent and self-satisfied and poetically unadventurous – that it led my poetic teammates (Kedrick James and…
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