What a great day for our nation and a difficult day for the world. The crisis in North Africa; the war in Mali, snows in Paris and not much of anything in New York. Continue reading →

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Tagged Civil Rights Movement, Femme du Monde, Lorenzo Thomas, Mali, Martin Luther King, New York, North Africa, Painkiller, Patricia Spears Jones, Patricia SpearsJones, Sunday School, The Weather That Kills

HW Pick: Patricia Spears Jones Masterful Master Class

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Master Writing Class—Seven Weeks: from Winter to Spring at CALABAR IMPORTS

Master Class for accomplished poets and writers. The focus will be on generating new work, revision and prosody. This is the fourth year of this class. Continue reading →

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Tagged Art, arts, Brooklyn, CALABAR IMPORTS, hw pick, James Brown, Literature, Master Class, Maureen Owen, Miss America, Patricia Spears Jones, Peter Straub, poetry, St. Mark's Church, The Poetry Project, Writers Resources

Women Writers of the Diaspora: Patricia Spears Jones

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Arkansas-born Patricia Spear Jones lives and works in NYC as a poet, editor, anthologist, teacher and former program coordinator for the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and the theater collective, Mabou Mines. Continue reading →

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Tagged arts, Bridget Davis, Carole Boyce Davies, Celesti Colds Fechter, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Diana McCaulay, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Ifeona Fulani, Jacqueline Bishop, Linda Susan Jackson, Merle Collins, Monica A. Hand, New York Community Trust, Opal Palmer-Adisa, Pamela Booker, Pamela Jackson, Poetry Project, Pushcart Prize, Rosalind McLymont, Tayari Jones, The Hirshon Suite, Tiphanie Yanique

HW Pick: “Dear Ayiti” from “Letters to Haiti” (video)

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | 2 Comments

“Dear Ayiti” is a segment of “letters to Haiti” which is a compilation of ideas, in spoken word. Thoughts dubbed “Letters to Haiti” which asks a simple question” if Haiti was a person and was in front of you… Continue reading →

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Posted in Cause, Harlem, Harlem cause, international, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Social Justice, Spoken, Video, World

Tagged Caribbean, Cité Soleil, Dear Ayiti, F. Andre, Fanm kanson Network, Francesca Andre, Grenadian, Haiti, Haitian Americans, letters to Haiti, United States Ambassador to Haiti

HW Radio Pod Show with Patricia Spears Jones and Eliza B For Poetry Month

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Listen to the HW Radio Podcast show with host Danny Tisdale as he talks with poets Patricia Spears Jones and Harlemite Eliza B as they read from their work and discuss poetry month.

And all the news happening in the world of Harlem.

Today Tuesday, April 24th, at 2 pm, listen here. Continue reading →

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Tagged Danny Tisdale, Eliza B, hw radio podcast show, Patricia Spears Jones, Poetry Month

“Supermodel” By Marella “Eliza B” (Spoken Word)

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | 3 Comments

I
Was
Hanging around the way the other day
And someone had to say
“Hey! Are you a model?”
And I’m thinking to myself
“Hell Yeah”
But I never been on a cover of a magazine
Although I have been called beauty queen
But that’s about it Continue reading →

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“Beyond Black” A Poem By Martial

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Who doesn’t want to be rich and famous?

You can do it without acting hanus.

Play a sport, study law,

perform music, professionally draw.

Keep it legal and off the streets.

You’ll stay out of jail, nor be deceased. Continue reading →

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Tagged black, Harlem, Martial, Motivation, poetry, Youth

To Be Heard: Free Film Screenings, Free Writing Workshops for Youth, Poetry Slams In Harlem

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Rooftop Films brings the power of poetry to the streets of Harlem with a free events based around this award winning documentary about lives and language on the edge: three teens from the Bronx tell their stories and show how a radical poetry class can ignite change. Continue reading →

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Tagged East Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, Lexington Academy, Poetry slam, To Be Heard

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