Urban Voices Heard - Write Outloud! Bronx Poets Inspiring All Who'll listen.

Every second Saturday of the month, Z'novia's (restuarant/bar) in the Bronx is filled with energetic, rhyme spewing, truth spit'n, haiku drop'n, word twist'n spoken word artists and the folks who love them. As resident photographer, I had the pleasure of  photographing an Urban Voices Heard's open-mic poetry event "Write Out loud" hosted by John "Chance" Acevedo of El Poetas and organized by Ms. Latanya DeVaughn, founder of Urban Voices Heard."

 

As a Purchase College SUNY student years ago, poetry circles, conga jam sessions, and random acts of dance took place on campus anywhere that a heart could beat;  that is,  until university police rolled in and shut it down.  Nostalgic and engaging, Urban Voices Heard - Write Out Loud open mic event series is an event worth schlepping from wherever to both inspire and be inspired.

Urban Voices Heard (UVH) Contact:

Latanya DeVaughn, founder of Urban Voices Heard

urbanvoicesheard@gmail.com

646.401.2815

Venue Location:

Venue: Every 2nd Saturday of the Month

(Next UVH EVENT@Z'novia's takes place: August 14th)

888 Grand Concourse (161 Street)

Bronx, NY 10451

(across from the Court House)

Urban Voices Heard will also be at the 

Nuyorian Poetry Cafe 

on August 7th before their  

August 17th event at Z'novia's:

Save the date!

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Dead Chicks & A Poem | Purchase College, SUNY

My doggy-bag committed suicide in my left hand while my camera couldn't stop staring as it dangled from the right. I almost stepped on them but squealed in disbelief while trying to avoid the pavement. My lunch began to panic seeking immediate exit somewhere along the Lincoln Avenue underpass and the Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery.

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Images captured against their will
Ebony snapped, the reality spilled
What could live on in an image
When it, itself is without life?
The paper dead once struck by light
Shortly after
Framed portrayals peek when dipped
Arrested memories released
They experience. . .
Conjured attributions
We project and stare
Tracing form and resolution
Stripped naked and bare
With his camera,
The photographer shoots
An ebb & flow of word
The critic lets loose
Still born, the photos
hung by his noose
Images eroded
Saddened and deduced.

"EROSION"
c 2009 Ebony Brown

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