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Flyer by Aaron White
If you\'re in LA 9/11 - come out and support the 1st Amendment, independent bookstores and anti-war poetry all in one event. Hey - it\'s even FREE! Hope to see ya there!
Hey gkg,
I was not able to make the event. How did it go? I really like the whole idea and am saddened that I could\'nt attend. Please fill us in. thanks!
it was really fabulous! very stirring. unfortunately neither Eric Brown and Liz Wagstaff were able to attend but everyone else did.
SA Griffin (no blood relation of mine, just another mythological beast and a karmic e-cuzzin) put it all together and opened with a wonderful reading from Thoreau. Kudos to Skylight Books for hosting this wonderful gathering.
we had a moment of noise to honor the 1000 American and countless Iraqi lives lost to this war by that date (to anyone who was there - i was the woman under the tree who gave the really loud single long howl).
if you\'ve never been to a reading by Philomene Long or Laurel Ann Bogen, my god you have to go. everyone was wonderful, but these two ladies just blew me away - OMIGOD.
Henry J. Morro was evocative and stirring. Eve Wood gave wonderful voice to imagery. Linda Albertano did a cool hip-hop indictment of the administration and this quagmire. Mona Jean Cedar did a wonderfully moving sign language interpretive dance to a song she had written with the woman she lived with at the time of the first Bush\'s war, for that woman\'s son. don\'t know the woman\'s name and i wish i did. if you know anything of Dennis Cruz\' work you know he was both deeply poignant and funny as hell - he was the show closer.
the moment that stands out as singular though belongs to the incredible mind that is Scott Wannberg, who before reading some wonderful new material led us all in a rousing sing along of John Prine\'s "Your Flag Decal Won\'t Get You Into Heaven Anymore." he got the whole place singing the chorus and feeling the joy of being with like minded folk. really made you feel that if there are enough of us, we might be able to start some peace with Iraq.
Wow! Your discription alone has inspired me. I have to confess I am not familiar with several of the names you mentioned but I am induced to look into it further so I to can know of them. Thank you for sharing that. I have to believe that just the presence of all who attended and were there, in like mindedness, did have an impact on a path toward peace. The thought alone is power in itself.
indeed - thought is power, but only if you give voice to it and put it into action.
check out all the poets - they are wonderful - some are old guard and a few are relative newcomers... but they are all powerful. i have a personal bias toward SA who has become a friend of ours, but they really are all wonderful.