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Last Poets were rappers of the civil rights era. Along with the changing domestic landscape came the New York City-hip group called The Last Poets, who used obstreperous verse to chide a nation whose inclination was to maintain the colonial yoke around the neck of the disenfranchised.
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Irritable Tribe of Poets presents: Dead Girls on Parade, a post-Halloween party with the living dead girls who will muse on the favorite theme of poets – death. Poets: Silvia Curbelo, Melissa Fair, Rhonda J. Nelson, Susan Tyler. Musicians: Bob Brown – keys, Tom Kersey – Cello, Ray Villadonga – bass Drums – Danny DiPietra - Featuring soprano vocalist Margarita Romanski.
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Poets are invited to post samples of their work here. Read poems, make comments, give suggestions, helpful tips, etc. Express your feelings and post some poetry here! Selected poems can be displayed below.
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All 16 poets whose names appear on the memorial served in uniform during the war. At 45, Binyon was the oldest at the start of the war. Blunden the youngest, at 18. Of the 16 poets, Brooke, Grenfell, Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley, and Thomas died in the war. The only poet of the group still alive at the unveiling in 1985 of the stone in Westminster Abbey was Robert Graves, who died later that same year. The inscription on the stone is from Owen's now-famous "Preface" to his poems:
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The Last Poets made four albums. Oyewole, at times with Hassan, at time without, made a number of others. On the albums, there are many special guests. Bill Laswell has appeared with the group during much of the 90s. They participated in the 1994 Lollapalooza tour; performed in John Singleton's "Poetic Justice" film and Holy Terror has Senegalese drummer Aiyb Dieng and his longtime collaborator, former Coltrane protege Pharoah Sanders to add some fireworks on sax. Hassan has the CD Be Bop or Be Dead.
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Levantine Cultural Center and the Newport Beach Library will host a "Memorial for Mutanabbi Street" event on Saturday, March 29, 2008 3pm with the Saadoun Al-Bayati Ensemble and a select group of poets/writers and artists who will participate in the reading. This program will be similiar in spirit to the Nov. 19, 2007 evening organized by Levantine Cultural Center and the Los Angeles Public Library. www.levantinecenter.org
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