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Mahogany
Mahogany is the heart beat of Poetry City! Wednesday nights belong to the spoken word and the ancestors have allowed us to come before the' and pour out souls, rhythm, knowledge, power, love and peace! The stage is vibrating with sounds of world beats, hip hop, reggae and soul and the list is loaded with sure fire spitters and most nights an amazing feature. The honey wine is pouring, the vibe is telling and the music is setting the scene for another beautiful Wednesday night of the SPOKEN WORD!
MAHOGANY IS ABOUT YOU, community, the art of oral tradition, sharing, loving, growing, laughing, tears, WORDS, wisdom and presence, without YOU Mahogany could not exist! We thank you, for the one's, the die hards, the true's, the do or die's, the rain sleet or snow im going to the Mahogany Show! We say thank you for your support! For the ancestors that bless us and watch over Momma Mahogany we say all together ASHE'
LAST BUT NOT LEAST we thank the Mayor of our Poetry City, for 14 years he has been like the pastor who will not miss a sunday, amen! We thank Brother KHIRY MALIK MOORE for his dedication, vision, tenacity, patience and passion! Thank you brother, friend, poet, dj and janitor!
in the words of the Great Mayor of Poetry City.. SPEAK POET SPEAK
This movement is dedicated to our poetry family members who have past on-ashe'
ANGELA ELIZABETH BOYCE
Angela Elizabeth Boyce was a graduate of the University of California, San Diego with her Bachelor of Arts in United States History. She has performed throughout the United States and is currently the Austin International Poetry Slam Champion and ranked 5th at the National Poetry Slam 2001. Boyce resides in Sacramento, California where she writes. She will be selling her newest chapbook Sloppy Wet Kisses Goodbye for five dollars. Angela Boyce was instrumental in bringing Slam culture to the City of Sacramento! Founder of Harumbee Arts collective, Angela was active in the arts community and bringing a west indian flair of culture to fore front!
Will "da" Real One
The audience at Manhattan's Supper Club grew quiet as Will took the stage for his performance on Def Poetry Jam. It was a wintry February night in 2004. He sported black boots, black jeans, and a black T-shirt with bold white letters spelling out "Black on Black Rhyme," one of his favorite poetry groups, based in Tallahassee. He also wore a black glove on his right hand.
Scowling and gesticulating, Will unloaded a steady staccato of words that form the verses to his poem "So I Run," a boiling-with-rage ballad documenting his dreams of saving his African-American heroes Harriet Tubman, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and two of hip-hop's most important rappers: Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.
His voice climbed decibels as he ripped through the poem. Reading the last stanza, Will raised his gloved fist and bowed his head in homage to 1968 Olympic medal winnersTommie Smith and John Carlos's black-power salute. The audience rose to its feet and roared as Da Real One coolly walked offstage.
That moment catapulted Will's budding career as a poet. It made him a popular commodity. He toured coast to coast doing national slam competitions. He traveled to Seattle, Baltimore, New York, Boston, and other U.S. cities. He also landed gigs from Toronto toKingston. He released his first spoken-word CD, Verbal Vision, and began working with local rappers such as Luther Campbell, Trick Daddy, and Trina. For inspiration he read the works of Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Gil Scott-Heron, Nikki Giovanni, and, most recently, the Last Poets, of the '60s civil rights movement.
MAHOGANY