Various Artists / Poems not Fit for the
| Album: | Poems not Fit for the | Collection: | Spoken Word | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | May 2003 | |
| Label: | Not in Our Name | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2003-07-07 | Pull Date: | 2003-09-08 |
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| Week Ending: | Aug 24 | Aug 17 | Jul 27 | Jul 13 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 13, 2021: | Music Casserole
Willie Perdomo, Odetta, Andre Gregory |
4. | Jul 26, 2003: | the rust belt
Willie Perdomo |
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| 2. | Aug 18, 2003: | Radio Red Well
Sapphire, Lee Ann Brown |
5. | Jul 23, 2003: | Your Imaginary Friend Disappears
Anne Waldman, Galway Kinnell |
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| 3. | Aug 14, 2003: | Civil Society
Galway Kinnell |
6. | Jul 12, 2003: | the rust belt
Arther Miller |
Album Review
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Reviewed 2003-07-07
Reviewed 2003-07-07
Poems Not Fit for the White House – presented by Not In Our Name
Anti-war poems from Not in Our Name. From a reading in New York organized after Laura Bush cancelled a poetry conference at the White House - in a typical move by the Bushies, she cancelled/censored it because poet Sam Hamill had requested people to send him anti-war poems. An eloquent set of anti-war statements from current poets and a few from the past (Whitman, Dickinson, Langston Hughes). Some are specific to Iraq 2003, but some are more general --- and the styles range from traditional to poetry slam. Although it was only a few months ago, some of the anti-war momentum has faded, but the failure to find weapons, the rebuilding of Iraq by Republican-linked corporations, etc, make these still very relevant. All are good!
PS. There was a huge snowstorm in NYC the night of the reading so some poets are reading or people who couldn’t make it
FCC: Disc 1-Track 6 (bullshit)
Disc1:
1/2. introduction/welcome 3. Sam Hamill -- the poet who started the "poet’s revolt" -- 1:00 intro/banter, amazing poem about Palestinians, Afghans, Tibetans 4. Saul Williams – brilliant. powerful 5. Marie Howe-six line poem by 4th grader from Michigan 6. Mos Def- about the power of fear. 7. Ann Lauterbach-an elegy 8. Arthur Miller -de-coding GWB’s slogans 9. Sapphire – reading Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuquan 10. Anne Waldman – reading Dickinson, Whitman, Hughes and one of her own 11. Ellen McLaughlin- reading Tom Sleigh 12. Martin Espada- Spanish refrain 13. Sharon Olds-reading 8th century Iraqi mystic and one of her own 14. Kathleen Chalfant- reading C.K. Williams - 15. Stanley Kunitz- reading his poem written during WWII
Disc 2
1. Suheir Hammad – if war was not an option, good GWB joke at beginning 2. Ammiel Alcalay – reading message from Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, and two other Iraqi poems, one in Arabic 3. Lee Ann Brown -- transforming war metaphors in church hymns to peaceful ones 4. Willie Perdomo – reading Miguel Pinero – ghetto/slum version of Genesis 5. Eli Wallach – reading Robert Creeley, Tyler Wallach (his 12-yr old son) and a prophetic paragraph by Eisenhower at end of Korean War – "humanity hanging from an iron cross" 6. Steve Colman – poetry slam style – anti-GWB, globalization – great! 7. Tracy Morris – sound poem, version of Sam Cooke’s "Chain Gang" 8. Ellen McLaughlin – reading Wilfred Owen 9. Rose Styron-reading Mary Oliver 10. Galway Kinnell – three pieces by Whitman and one of his own 11. Wallace Shawn-reading Jacques Prevert- great! 12 . Odetta – poetry/gospel hymn 13. Andre Gregory – reading W.S. Merwin – powerful statement 14/15—farewell and copyright
Anti-war poems from Not in Our Name. From a reading in New York organized after Laura Bush cancelled a poetry conference at the White House - in a typical move by the Bushies, she cancelled/censored it because poet Sam Hamill had requested people to send him anti-war poems. An eloquent set of anti-war statements from current poets and a few from the past (Whitman, Dickinson, Langston Hughes). Some are specific to Iraq 2003, but some are more general --- and the styles range from traditional to poetry slam. Although it was only a few months ago, some of the anti-war momentum has faded, but the failure to find weapons, the rebuilding of Iraq by Republican-linked corporations, etc, make these still very relevant. All are good!
PS. There was a huge snowstorm in NYC the night of the reading so some poets are reading or people who couldn’t make it
FCC: Disc 1-Track 6 (bullshit)
Disc1:
1/2. introduction/welcome 3. Sam Hamill -- the poet who started the "poet’s revolt" -- 1:00 intro/banter, amazing poem about Palestinians, Afghans, Tibetans 4. Saul Williams – brilliant. powerful 5. Marie Howe-six line poem by 4th grader from Michigan 6. Mos Def- about the power of fear. 7. Ann Lauterbach-an elegy 8. Arthur Miller -de-coding GWB’s slogans 9. Sapphire – reading Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuquan 10. Anne Waldman – reading Dickinson, Whitman, Hughes and one of her own 11. Ellen McLaughlin- reading Tom Sleigh 12. Martin Espada- Spanish refrain 13. Sharon Olds-reading 8th century Iraqi mystic and one of her own 14. Kathleen Chalfant- reading C.K. Williams - 15. Stanley Kunitz- reading his poem written during WWII
Disc 2
1. Suheir Hammad – if war was not an option, good GWB joke at beginning 2. Ammiel Alcalay – reading message from Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, and two other Iraqi poems, one in Arabic 3. Lee Ann Brown -- transforming war metaphors in church hymns to peaceful ones 4. Willie Perdomo – reading Miguel Pinero – ghetto/slum version of Genesis 5. Eli Wallach – reading Robert Creeley, Tyler Wallach (his 12-yr old son) and a prophetic paragraph by Eisenhower at end of Korean War – "humanity hanging from an iron cross" 6. Steve Colman – poetry slam style – anti-GWB, globalization – great! 7. Tracy Morris – sound poem, version of Sam Cooke’s "Chain Gang" 8. Ellen McLaughlin – reading Wilfred Owen 9. Rose Styron-reading Mary Oliver 10. Galway Kinnell – three pieces by Whitman and one of his own 11. Wallace Shawn-reading Jacques Prevert- great! 12 . Odetta – poetry/gospel hymn 13. Andre Gregory – reading W.S. Merwin – powerful statement 14/15—farewell and copyright
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