Tag: poets

  • Passion for Storytelling and Rap – The Canterbury Tales Remixed

    Somewhere between the classics and rap, is Baba Brinkman’s raw performance art, “The Canterbury Tales Remixed”. Not your school days’ version of Chaucer’s verse and other epic tales, these new hip-hop rhymes changed the way I think about English literature. The show premiered in New York City at the Soho Playhouse. Now, Baba Brinkman is bringing The Canterbury Tales…

  • Natural Supernatural Love Poems

    Have you carried unfinished things around with you from place to place, and hoped to make something new out of them? This spring, looking at the two shelves of handwritten, typed, bound, loose and even tattered poems and drawings that I’ve carried from childhood through a dozen moves, I had to do something about it. And…