[statecom-discuss] RE: [Needtoknow] Fwd: Saturday October 27 --- LIBERATION POETSCOLLECTIVEBOOK PUBLICATION AND SIGNING PARTY!!!

Wed Oct 10 12:13:51 EDT 2007

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From: gary hicks gooberthink06 at yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:10:30 -0700 (PDT)
To: gooberthink06 at yahoo.com
Subject: [Needtoknow] Fwd: Saturday October 27 --- LIBERATION POETS
	COLLECTIVEBOOK PUBLICATION AND SIGNING PARTY!!!

PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO OTHERS. THANK YOU.

gary hicks <watermelongreen2003 at yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007
21:03:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: gary hicks <watermelongreen2003 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: Saturday October 27 --- LIBERATION  POETS COLLECTIVE BOOK
PUBLICATION AND SIGNING PARTY!!!
To: gary hicks <gooberthink06 at yahoo.com>,
  gary hicks <big_g19462002 at yahoo.com>,
  gary hicks <dailyplanet20032003 at yahoo.com>

gary hicks <watermelongreen2003 at yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007
21:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: gary hicks <watermelongreen2003 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Saturday October 27 --- LIBERATION  POETS COLLECTIVE BOOK
PUBLICATION AND SIGNING PARTY!!!
To: gary hicks <watermelongreen2003 at yahoo.com>

   DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT!!!

  THE LIBERATION POETS COLLECTIVE  IS HOLDING A ------------------

   BOOK PARTY AND SIGNING, IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THEIR FIRST
ANTHOLOGY, POETS AGAINST 
THE KILLING FIELDS.

  Poems and texts by  Askia Toure, Aldo Tambellini, Brenda Walcott, Jill
Netchinsky, Neill Calender, Joselyn Almeida, 
Tontongi, Anna Wexler, Gary Hicks and Tony Medina 

  SATURDAY OCTOBER 27, 7:00PM
  THE DEMOCRACY CENTER  45 MOUNT AUBURN  STREET [OFF HARVARD SQUARE]
  CAMBRIDGE

  For more information, call: 617-331-2269, or e-mail editors at tanbou.com 

  Introduction
  “There are words like Freedom
  Sweet and wonderful to say
  On my heartstrings freedom sings
  All day everyday [...]”
  —Langston Hughes

  Poetry For Peace and Social Justice:
  Mission Statement of the Liberation Poetry Collective

  We are a group of writers and educators from diverse ethnic,
socio-economic and
  cultural provenances who joined hands on January 1st, 2001, to propagate
the
  ideals we attach to poetry: that it can be a potent  agent for change
while
  enlightening and entertaining the soul.

  For us, poetry and the liberation from exploitation and oppression are
not two
  parallel entities, but rather an organic whole, one tightly woven
endeavor. Given
  that even poetry cannot live completely outside the materiality of human
  experience, we believe that solidarity with and among peoples is at the
core of
  the praxis of being. Our completeness depends upon our continual search
not
  only for beauty and elation, but also for justice, for respect of the 
integrity of the
  Other, for equality of all human beings.

  Liberation poetry is liberation of the soul, the rejection of
one-dimensional,
  disfiguring post-modernist fads.We will tell the children the truth, as
Bob Marley
  intoned, but we also open ourselves to learn from them. If our objective
is to bring
  poetry to the streets, as Brenda Walcott suggests, then our poets will
work with all
  peoples, embracing the rejected and the disenfranchised, learning to
expose and
  to resist the mechanisms of political oppression and cultural 
mystification.
  We are the new visionary warriors, the new maroons, and our creed is one
of
  human affirmation.We aim to launch a cultural insurrection that
brandishes and
  celebrates poetry as a powerful weapon for resistance against
degradation, in the
  pursuit of human freedom and justice.
  Boston, January 2001

  Tontongi, Jill Netchinsky, Brenda Walcott, Aldo Tambellini,
  Askia Touré, Anna Wexler, Gary Hicks

  Books cost $12.95, plus $1.75  Shipping and Handling per book. Money
orders and checks to:

  Trilingual Press
  PO Box 391206
  Cambridge MA 02139

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