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Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
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Renaissance man, storyteller and radio host, Sam Payne featured the poetic storytelling of Paul Laurence Dunbar, brought to life by storytellers Mitch Capel & Oni Lasana. His radio show "The Little Apple Seed" grows and showcases storytellers of all genre's. Listen to this segment to hear how Paul Laurence Dunbar's works has touched the lives of so many storytellers...especially Mitch & Oni!
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Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
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Dr. Imani Ma'at is a Harvard Educated Acclaimed Author, Award-Winning Health Educator, and International Health and Wellness Keynote Speaker with 22 years of experience at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as Health Scientist & Program Director. Armed with the truth and an understanding of the urgent need for accurate information and skills to reduce health risks, Dr. Ma'at launched Healthy Haiku Productions (HHP), LLC.
Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry
Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry premiered in April of 2006 and is hosted by Clayton "Big Trigger" Corley Sr. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The concept of the online radio show is based on parings of jazz musicians and their poetic contemporaries.
The early shows highlighted the music of John Coltrane and the poetry of Amiri Baraka. Dinah Washington and George Benson. SOJP features both legends and the newer artists in both genres. SOJP is also known for its in-depth interviews with poets such as Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Sandra Turner-Barnes, Toni Love, and musicians, Mulgrew Miller, Odean Pope, Roy Ayers, Pat Martino, and more!
These interviews provide artists a international online forum to talk about their work and the creative process.
For SOJP's conversation with Oni Lasana and other fabulous artists.
Oni's Diary : Muse : Considering something carefully
It
IT aka CANCER
IT
took my good friend, my lover, my male me
IT
stopped our song before it ended
IT
stopped the music before our dance was over
IT
took our lives before we lived it
IT
took years before
IT
killed us.
RIP 1981
IT
took my sister, the dancer, "I don't eat flesh" lady
IT
ran riot through her blood.
Was
IT
inherited?
Was
IT
dairy.
Was it
IT?
What kind?
IT
put her to sleep in a month.
Something about blood. Non-Hodgkins, Hodgkins?
IT
Too slow to ever know, too fast to find out
RIP 2009
IT
erased my mother's smile.
IT
hid in her stomach. (the coward)
Unaware she was feeding
IT
Chemicals from “unhealthy choice” frozen dinners.
IT
overpowered steamed collards, kale, all her vitamins,
IT
stabbed holes in daughters devoted love and hopeful hopes
IT
took two years before
IT
quieted her to rest
RIP 2011
IT
stole my friend. Sarah
IT
abused her breast like an angry lover
Lymphoderma
IT
hardened half her body
like a statue
Once beautiful, brown and smooth.
She looked like elephant man in the end.
Turning her lovely face into painless peace
IT
won.
RIP 2012
I loved them, prayed with them, cared for them, laid next to them, made them laugh, read books to them, played kingdom melodies, cooked for them, juiced veggies & fruit for them, fed them, rubbed feet, massaged them, oiled scalps, walked to the bathroom with them, wiped them clean, kissed them and hugged them.
As requested
I NEVER cried
with them.
IT
moved on
Hopefully
IT
Will be gone for good and one day
IT
will stand alone
like in this poem.
(C) Oni Lasana – June 17, 2013
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