Tag: spoken word
Our 10th annual show, Retro-Active: 10 Years of Poetic Action, will be held on May 17, 2012 at 8 PM at the Helen Mills Theater on West 26th Street. Retro-Active will take a look back at Poetic People Power’s artistic response to the changing political landscape over the last decade and offer new words about where our country [...]
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Jefferson Bethke’s poem, “Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus” has gone “viral” as they say and with all youtube videos come comments, both, positive and negative, hopeful and discouraging. In reading the comments and blogs and listening to the poem written by Jefferson, again and again I believe there is a gulf between the [...]
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I left the office at 12:37am this morning after spending some time alone after our Vision Dinner and went down into the train. I walked to the front of F Line headed to Queens. As I reach the end of the platform, a man who wouldn’t tell me his name but said he had a [...]
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A Poem: Dear Poverty, by Jonathan Walton, InterVarsity’s New York City Urban Project Director My name is hopelessness But you can call me misery, despair, depression or any other term thatpops up when you Press shift F7 on your pc while writing your paper aboutDarfur, Congo, Xinjiang, Chechnya or… Port-au-Prince from your climatecontrolled [...]
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This was my 4th year serving as the Head Judge at the Fairchild Challenge’s Annual Spoken Word Competition. What’s the Fairchild Challenge? Click here to find out!
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James looked up at me and said that he was raised Catholic but he never really had a relationship with, but tonight as he heard that Jesus’ radical love for him is what drives our action he was overcome. When I proclaimed that “we don’t have to be perfect and understand it all and that [...]
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