Dennis Brutus At Saturn Series Poetry July ©2008SuPolo.m4v

Dennis Brutus Video taken at Saturn Series Poetry in July 2008. He gives a commentary about writing poetry & reads 2 poems. One he wrote at the reading the same night at Nightingale Lounge to elaborate on the original poem in regard to S. African govt arms manufacturer creating small round shiny cluster bombs which end up in the hands of children.
On December 26, 2009, Dennis Brutus—internationally renowned South African poet and human-rights activist who spent time with Nelson Mandela in Robben Island prison and years in exile from his native land because of his opposition to the Apartheid regime—died at the age of 85.
MEMORIAL GATHERING & READING on Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 2 pm at The Brecht Forum - 451 West Street, between Bank and Bethune Streets, NYC. For directions, visit: http://brechtforum.org/directions
Sponsored by: Haymarket Books, Brecht Forum, Activist Poets' Roundtable, War Resisters League, Black Left Unity Network, Indypendent.
Also see the poetry & web site of his friend Steve Bloom...
http://www.stevebloompoetry.net/
Video ©2008SuPolo - www.supolo.com

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