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Turning a Phrase
By C. Gerald Fraser
Published: June 22, 1987
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Today, James Earl Jones, winner of this year's Tony Award for best actor in a play for his work in ''Fences,'' will read poetry by August Wilson. Mr. Wilson also won a Tony for writing ''Fences,'' the story of how one father sternly nurtures his son. Reading her own poetry will be the poet and playwright who wrote ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,'' Ntozake Shange. Esther Rolle is to be the host in Theater Four at 424 West 55th Street at 7:30 P.M.
Also included in the evening is the presentation of the 1987 McDonald Literary Achievement Awards to Sylvia M. Cunningham of Los Angeles for her play, ''No Two Way Ticket;'' Lydia Elizabeth Percy Jones of Brooklyn for her poetry, ''Ladies Room;'' Carmel Simmons of Fresno, Calif., for her fiction, ''In an Unknown Wind,'' and Shannon Richards of Charleston, S.C., for her fiction, ''Social Work.''
Portions of the winners' works are to be read. Admission, free. Information: 246-8545. Derring-Do
Anthony Giaimo says that some of Shakespeare's contemporaries referred to Shakespeare as an ''upstart crow.'' To them, it meant the Bard would not amount to anything. To Mr. Giaimo, the term represents ''the spirit of audacity'' and he has named a new theater company, of which he is producing director, Upstart Crow.
The company's first production is a new play, ''Under the Skin,'' by Betty Lambert. This work focuses on the fight for sexual power in a marriage.
Through July 1, performances of ''Under the Skin'' are to be Monday through Friday at 8 P.M. and Saturday at 7 and 10 P.M. at the Perry Street Theater, 31 Perry Street. Admission, $8. Information: 982-1661.




Awards for 3 Black Writers
Published: June 25, 1987
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Three women whose writing concerns the black experience in the United States are the recipients of the 1987 Literary Achievement Awards, sponsored by the McDonald's Corporation. The recipients, each of whom was awarded $1,000, are Sylvia Cunningham, a playwright; Lydia Elizabeth Percy Jones, a poet, and Carmel Simmons, a novelist.

IBPC 2009

InterBoard Poetry Competition
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Nominating Pimp & Baby Girl

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Nominating this fine poem by lepadahxxx for the next IBPC.

Pimp & Baby Girl

Hooked won't turn you loose
I won't let you go
hard to say
how many lives perished away
tricked out by my Brooklyn appeal
I deal you steal
your grandma's pension checks
to satisfy the get high
off my most potent shit
that keeps you running down black streets
searching doorways
along deserted blocks
with whores
rolling the stroll
running my track
holding my back
straight you hear
underneath my bridge
many men wait the night fall
gaining access to my family ass
bedizen in skimpy ensembles
switching booty cheeks
moon peeks smile
stiletto skyscrapers grinding asphalt
patent leather black catching the gleam of high beams
mighty mack trucks strobe by
I wait
I pole lean
a bent kangol tipped to the side
hiding one fucked up eye
that shifts without permission
stand looking and licking for cash money
sporting skinny jeans
my Abercrombie & Fitch
sneaker laces unhitched
keeping one eye on the main bitch
I call baby

Baby girl

Yeah, my name Baby
they call me baby
spy calls me a lady
his main woman
I not a child
a silly little girl
I am a woman at twelve
we smoke trees
eat value meals from mickey d's
shop at the coliseum
watch Hannah Montana on tv
he treats me well
I make his money
cause I love my man
oh my job
I'm a whore
his bitch
who is on his track
I party
you know 20 for head
50 for that
(baby stands proudly pointing to her what she calls "pineapple pussy")
finger twisting her weave
just like a little girl


© 2009 Lepadah

Previous nominations

http://forums.about.com/ab-poetry/messages/?msg=5524.2&ctx=0
July 2000 IBPC Nominees
Our July entries: "Water Gossip" (D.Ouellet), "Totem" (Hugh Anderson),
"Green" (Dave Ruslander), "Melancholy Winter" (Steve Phillips), "The
Pearl" (Selig), "It's NiGgEr Time" (Lydia E. Percy). Luck to all!

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Xiao

XIAO - The Sequel


the little child with no name
sits on a wooden chair
lost and disconnected
outside of himself there is no comprehensive conversation
a relic
difficult
sweet treat are given daily
discipline mishandled by a granny
who always changing faces
who sits picking fingers to bleed
caught in her own world of woe
unfolding dirty doilies
reliving her own ugly sins
bible pressed to her breast
asking God why
doing her best
there is no rest
to sooth spirits
devil's tattooed
ramshackle thoughts of a beautiful mind
sketches of new york city train map
done by the little child
sitting on the wooden chair
with no name



© 2009 Lepadah

The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky


My rating: 5 of 5 stars
El Topo let me say a must see & read the book. Introduction to this movie years ago...Those that know ... know.

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Our Lady Of The Flowers by Jean Genet



A interesting writer ...I think. So devious. Challenge read the French version. (smile) WHOA

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