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The House That Etheridge Built: A Panel & Reading
Type:
Music/Arts - Recital
Date:
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Afro-American Cultural Center
Street:
211 Park Street
City/Town:
New Haven, CT
Etheridge Knight often said it is “a valid ambition to want the words you strung together to live on the lips of ordinary people.” Today, four emerging African-American poets echo that sentiment with each line they write. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, Marcus Jackson and John Murillo have come together to form the Symphony. These four poets combine their voices into four movements that form one song: a multitudinous story of love, prison, fatherhood and the denizens of cities often absent from American verse. The House that Etheridge Built is part lecture, and part poetic suite. It is an introduction to the work of Etheridge Knight and an introduction to the voices of his literary descendants, all who aim to have their words live on the lips of ordinary people.
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