Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam On Broadway ... And More

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-03-29
Publisher(s): Atria Books
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Summary

This upbeat, one-of-a-kind collection brings the Def poets -- as featured in the Tony Award-winning Broadway show and popular HBO television program -- to life on the page. Among them: Suheir Hammad, Beau Sia, Steve Colman, Stacyann Chin, Mayda del Valle, Georgia Me, Poetri, and other well-established and up-and-coming Slam artists who have forever changed the face of poetry and offer a fresh, exuberant, insightful, and comedic look at who we are as Americans today.

Author Biography

Danny Simmons, a renowned painter of abstract-expressionist oil works, owns the Rush Arts Gallery in Manhattan and Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn. A poet and cofounder of the Def Poetry Jam performance series, he heads the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation with his brother, Russell Simmons. He lives in Brooklyn.

Table of Contents

foreword viii
Russell Simmons
editor's note x
Danny Simmons
the process xii
Stan Lathan
PART ONE DEF POETRY JAM ON BROADWAY
2(205)
Stan Lathan
Russell Simmons
Black Ice
Staceyann Chin
Steve Colman
Mayda Del Valle
Georgia Me
Suheir Hammad
Lemon
Poetri
Beau Sia
DJ Tendaji
Stan Lathan
PART TWO
Beau Sia
109(10)
Black Ice
119(8)
Georgia Me
127(6)
Lemon
133(6)
Mayda Del Valla
139(12)
Poetri
151(20)
Staceyann Chin
171(12)
Steve Colman
183(6)
Suheir Hammad
189(14)
DJ Tendaji
203(4)
Author Index 207(1)
First Line Index 208

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