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Author-Poet Aberjhani's Blog – March 2008 Archive (5)

Celebrating National Poetry and Jazz Appreciation Month April 2008

Poetry and Jazz Music have been friendly kissing cousins at least since the 1920s during the United States’ great jazz age and the very famous worldwide Harlem Renaissance. That was when the great author Langston Hughes and others thrilled themselves and their friends by reciting and recording poetry to the beats of jazz. Many more––Jack Kerouac, Nikki Giovanni, Amiri Baraka, Sekou Sundiata, June Jordan, etc––later followed their…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 26, 2008 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

All About Love and Susan L. Taylor

(photo of Susan L. Taylor by Marc Brasz)

When the NAACP in 2006 presented author and social activist Susan L. Taylor with its President’s Award, the organization publicly acknowledged what readers of Essence® Magazine had been experiencing for nearly four decades. Namely, that Ms. Taylor is among the most effective, dynamic, and beloved human resources on the planet. In All About Love (Urban Books) a rich of harvest of writings…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 25, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Astounding Angels of the Wingless Kind

Poster for the Australian movie "Gabriel"

Are there any who fall, when they fall, quite so hard as angels do? Going by the scenario in Australian director Shane Abbess’ extraordinary noir metaphysical drama Gabriel, the answer would have to be a loud “No!” As they battle in human form for control over the middle earth region of Purgatory, where human souls dwell in limbo before descending to hell or ascending to heaven,…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 10, 2008 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

Ararat: the Power of Art and Legacies

Ararat movie still courtesy of Miramax

Director and writer Atom Egoyan––who has won universal acclaim for such films as Exotica (1995), The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and Where the Truth Lies in 2005––is generally not one for presenting his movies in straightforward narrative formats. His 2002 masterpiece Ararat unfolds in overlapping layers that blend the past with the present, art with reality, and… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 7, 2008 at 2:04am — No Comments

The Poet Who Would Be President 2

Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois.

From the response around the internet to the Barack Obama critici who stated, “He’s a poet, not a fighter,” apparently I was not the only one stunned by the offensive words. The following are a second batch of quotes from the poet who would be president. They begin with a prose excerpt from his memoir, “Dreams from My…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 2, 2008 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

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The trends in Modern poetry

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Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the…Continue

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