Praise Poem for Jikki

Alice Lovelace is one of the most powerful and influential performance poets in Atlanta, having received the Mayor's Fellowship in the Arts for Literary Arts. Drawing from the rich vein of African performance art, Lovelace refers to herself as an "urban griot," bringing to mind the performers among the Dogon and other West African tribes. It must be confessed that those who have had the thrill of hearing a Lovelace performance will find her printed words less compelling. Her poetry is fixed in amber, not wafting on the winds. Performed poetry does not yet maintain a HoJo on the information highway.
-Dr. Gary Alan Fine

In this video, Alice Lovelace, Atlanta's premiere poetess, performs "Praise Poem for Jikki" at her 60th birthday celebration at Java Monkey in Decatur, Ga.

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• Alice
• Lovelace
• poetry
• poem
• spoken
• word

[TheJeetu22]

Awesome...!!