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Ay, Ay, Ay de la Grifa Negra by Julia de Burgos

On 16 July, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - interviews, Performance Poetry
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YADagH8ipY

Poem by Julia de Burgos, translated by Jack Agüeros

I’ve been looking for videos of poems by the great 20th-century Puerto Rican poet and feminist Julia de Burgos in honor of the confinrmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor, so I was happy to run across this installment from the generally wonderful Favorite Poem Project, featuring bilingual public school teacher Glaisma Perez-Silva.

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Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa

On 4 June, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - interviews, Performance Poetry
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http://youtu.be/IaeNQC7PWK4

Poem by Yusef Komunyakaa

Read by Michael Lythgoe for the Favorite Poem Project

African-American folk poetry: gandy dancers

On 7 April, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Documentary, interviews, Performance Poetry
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Excerpt of a film by Barry Dornfeld and Maggie Holtzberg-Call

Gandy dancers were the guys who straightened track. A YouTube preview from a full-length documentary (not embeddable) on Folkstreams.net.

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