Tayari's Blog: Do You Hear What I Hear?

Posted by TayariJones on May 1, 2008 08:19 AM
Filed under Living For The City

Go Aisha, Go!National Poetry Month is over. To help you out with the transition back into normal life, I will recap a wonderful event that I attended last week at NYU. CC poets Alvin Aubert, Randall Horton, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Mendi Obadike and Gwen Samuels read to celebrate the anthology The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South.

As we have come to expect from Cave Canem, the reading was outstanding. I was particularly knocked out by my good friend, Kamilah Aisha Moon. Isn't funny how you know some one, know she is brilliant, and then she reveals a whole 'nother layer? Her poetry collection "She Has A Name" is about her family's journey with her younger sister's autism. When Kamilah read a poem in her father's voice, the fiction writer in me had to sit up and take notice. All I can say is that she really inhabited that character. Wow. "She Has A Name" has not yet found a publisher. But it will. Mark. My. Words.

Meanwhile, here are some photos I snapped at the event. As always, I thought they were cute, until I saw Rachel's...

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