Tag: Carmen Tafolla
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music-ing with Ntozake Shange
In a workshop a few years ago, I had the honor of getting to hear distinguished poet Carmen Tafolla talk about voice and its role in poetry. She said that we should consider human voice a chemical component of the poem, that through it, heat and energy were summoned to bring language to life. This week’s…
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*resonating with josé antonio rodriguez
Last week had me both at the Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, as well as in Austin, Texas for the CantoMundo conference. It’s a little more rocknroll that I’m used to, but I had a blast! Here’s a pic of one of the nice surprises from…
The Friday Influence 