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• Leroy Jones / Amiri Baraka 

"Someboy Blew Up America"

• New Orleans'  musicians, protesters, music fans 

and activists bum rush the Mayor and City Hall to proclaim "

"Music Ain't a Crime"  

A band of New Orleans musicians led by trombonist Glen David Andrews stormed city hall in protest of proposed sound ordinance laws that would keep their music off the streets.

The city withdrew the ban.

• Spoken Mind Poetry 

"The Kingdmss Come'

from "The ID (Inkless Dialogue) Pooems vol.1 2011

backed by John Voigt's" Outsider Bass" /track 1 and 2 

• Leroy Jones / Amiri Baraka

on his poetry and breaking rules

Poet E. Ethelbert Miller introduces Amiri Baraka

(LeRoi Jones) as one of the most prolific writers of the century

• THE LAST POETS: Made in Amerikkka is a film that erases the boundaries between different genres. It's a live recording, a musical documentary and an art film by Claude Santiago

Poet: Jalal  Mansur Nuriddin ~ "... Thier eyes are grenades and the PEN Is aout to be pulled" 

Poet: Philipe Luciano 

Poet: Umar Bin Hassan 

Poet: Daveed Nelson

Poet: Abiodun Oyewole

Poet: Babatunde

 (Listen carfully) this contains art work in the context of its ttime.

F*ck! (Heavy profanity and accessive use of the N' word in this 

• Poet: Kamau Daaood 
  

1. Ancestral Echoes (Mama Records, 1997)2.

• Poet:  Kathleen MacAusland Schumacher

1.  Cold

excerpt:from the film  

• "The Dead Poets Society ~ (Actor) Robin Willians

1. Why do we read and write poetry? (Dead Poets Society)

• Poet: Stacy Ann Chin 

1. Bush's second term 
2. My First Period

• Poet Sarah Kay

1. : If I should have a daughter ..

• Poet: Kathleen MacAusland Schumacher

1. A Heart, No Mortal Break

Poet Kamau Daaood - Ancestral Echoes (Mama Records, 1997)

• Poet: Dawn Saylor

1.  When i was 14

• Poet: Daniel Beaty

1. (Def Jam Poetry)Knock Knock) 

• Poet: Katie Makkai

1. Pretty

• A youTube piece posted by MrRellikSir·

1. Minecraft / End Poem Reading-

Poetry from the world of Video Gamming (I think)  ---An I Do Not Know Show 1st

Thank you Listeners,

CC Arshagra

your producer, host, and spoken Mind poet.