A couple of plugs:
Breakdown Book Collective - 1409 Ogden Street - Denver - 303-832-7952
Blea is a 53 year-old Hispanic-American hired by the owners of the Breakdown building to maintain the outside sidewalk and curbside. He plants the grass, and picks up your cigarette butts and bottles. His performance--a full theatric production of his poetry including character, costume, lighting, and a catchy Dick Dale-ish soundtrack--is a pleasant creative gesture from the unassuming caretaker of Breakdown's block. Understandably, to a bunch of radicals, "Patriotic Act" sounds suspicious at best (what with being the namesake of grave and recent legislation). How patriotism falls into Blea's message, is uknown BUT seeing the patriotic act will be worthwhile. Blea knows too well how marginalized his voice is in the mainstream (as well as occasionally, to our collective dismay, the not-so-mainstream). He knows how classes are structured and he knows prisons. Learning all this from Blea involves his "patriotic act" but also involves Blea himself. He chooses his words carefully and impresses them with other words and this is exciting.
On Thursday, February 12, 8 p.m.
On the first anniversary of Laura Bush's cancellation of a Poetry reading in the White House there will be a poetry reading at Oh My Goddess Coffeehouse, 1526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. PoetsAgainstTheWar.org had a nationwide call for this! So come on out and read!
Breakdown Book Collective - 1409 Ogden Street - Denver - 303-832-7952
Blea is a 53 year-old Hispanic-American hired by the owners of the Breakdown building to maintain the outside sidewalk and curbside. He plants the grass, and picks up your cigarette butts and bottles. His performance--a full theatric production of his poetry including character, costume, lighting, and a catchy Dick Dale-ish soundtrack--is a pleasant creative gesture from the unassuming caretaker of Breakdown's block. Understandably, to a bunch of radicals, "Patriotic Act" sounds suspicious at best (what with being the namesake of grave and recent legislation). How patriotism falls into Blea's message, is uknown BUT seeing the patriotic act will be worthwhile. Blea knows too well how marginalized his voice is in the mainstream (as well as occasionally, to our collective dismay, the not-so-mainstream). He knows how classes are structured and he knows prisons. Learning all this from Blea involves his "patriotic act" but also involves Blea himself. He chooses his words carefully and impresses them with other words and this is exciting.
On Thursday, February 12, 8 p.m.
On the first anniversary of Laura Bush's cancellation of a Poetry reading in the White House there will be a poetry reading at Oh My Goddess Coffeehouse, 1526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. PoetsAgainstTheWar.org had a nationwide call for this! So come on out and read!
posted by Ken at 2:55 PM
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