Saturday, October 14, 2006
Mujeres in Motion
Last night , with a friend, I attended the performance by the full crew of 'Mujeres in Motion' a Chicana poetry group, who read poems.
While there were a few poems that I didn't care for, either due to being too explicit for my tastes, or being too Drama Queen for my tastes, the majority of the work presented was really very good!
In fact it was the best poetry reading I have attended in the Yakima Gulag! The woman who has won two Black Box Poetry Slams in a ROW! Ms. Alvisio read from her work.
She has this real gift for being able to rhyme on the fly and in general her rhymes work and are unconventional. I envy that ability! It's one of the reasons she's won in a venue where rhyme isn't so favored, it's because she can do it and make it sound natural in English, a language that does not rhyme easily!
She brought her younger sister, who came up with some good stuff too! Her stuff was a little more 'preachy' than her older sister's work, but still she had some flashes of brilliance.
She btw got a speeding ticket trying to get to the Yakima Gulag from the Wapato Camp!
This was my first time to see all of them,
While there were a few poems that I didn't care for, either due to being too explicit for my tastes, or being too Drama Queen for my tastes, the majority of the work presented was really very good!
In fact it was the best poetry reading I have attended in the Yakima Gulag! The woman who has won two Black Box Poetry Slams in a ROW! Ms. Alvisio read from her work.
She has this real gift for being able to rhyme on the fly and in general her rhymes work and are unconventional. I envy that ability! It's one of the reasons she's won in a venue where rhyme isn't so favored, it's because she can do it and make it sound natural in English, a language that does not rhyme easily!
She brought her younger sister, who came up with some good stuff too! Her stuff was a little more 'preachy' than her older sister's work, but still she had some flashes of brilliance.
She btw got a speeding ticket trying to get to the Yakima Gulag from the Wapato Camp!
This was my first time to see all of them,
# posted by Katja R. @ 7:17 AM 
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I just wanted to comment that, in general, I always enjoy your blog--I rarely comment because there are so many stories to digest, but I really appreciate the work you do; I check your blog almost daily to keep informed and find stories I might otherwise miss. Thank you so much.
And the poetry reading sounds like it was a lot of fun!
And the poetry reading sounds like it was a lot of fun!
Hvala najlipsa! :)
I in turn have enjoyed the way you have torn apart Johnson's work, and exposed the shallowness and bias. I haven't commented much from my end on the grounds that it's been difficult to know when Blogger would act up and force me to jump through hoops and my non blogging life is a busy one, full of homework and stuff I am trying to get done around the house.
School never helps because I come home wrecked from carrying even the minimum necessary to get through a day at school, notebooks, lap-top, both text books, and odds and ends like my lunch and coffee. Even though it's just a two block walk, it can be trying because I have to dodge the Hell Hounds so it's really a three block walk. I arrive, often I update at school if I woke late, check class related e-mail, then Iup-date my blog, if I for some reason didn't do it at home, and then it's class, working with the person I tutor, class again and back home for another round of homework then the afternoon updating if any. I like to have lots of news stories, because stuff comes off the wires in the early evening Balkans time, and is up by the time I'm home.
I don't really do that much work on this part of it. I have three or four comprehensive sources and I check for what I think is important, weeding out the Mind Improvement as far as possible and the Propaganda as far as possible.
Unless either is funny, or otherwise attention getting, or will shed light on what is going on of course.
I intend being tied up next month with NaNoWriMo National Write a Novel in a Month.
I'm sort of taking one character from my previous novel, and doing some stuff with her.
I in turn have enjoyed the way you have torn apart Johnson's work, and exposed the shallowness and bias. I haven't commented much from my end on the grounds that it's been difficult to know when Blogger would act up and force me to jump through hoops and my non blogging life is a busy one, full of homework and stuff I am trying to get done around the house.
School never helps because I come home wrecked from carrying even the minimum necessary to get through a day at school, notebooks, lap-top, both text books, and odds and ends like my lunch and coffee. Even though it's just a two block walk, it can be trying because I have to dodge the Hell Hounds so it's really a three block walk. I arrive, often I update at school if I woke late, check class related e-mail, then Iup-date my blog, if I for some reason didn't do it at home, and then it's class, working with the person I tutor, class again and back home for another round of homework then the afternoon updating if any. I like to have lots of news stories, because stuff comes off the wires in the early evening Balkans time, and is up by the time I'm home.
I don't really do that much work on this part of it. I have three or four comprehensive sources and I check for what I think is important, weeding out the Mind Improvement as far as possible and the Propaganda as far as possible.
Unless either is funny, or otherwise attention getting, or will shed light on what is going on of course.
I intend being tied up next month with NaNoWriMo National Write a Novel in a Month.
I'm sort of taking one character from my previous novel, and doing some stuff with her.
Like Kirk, I also visit your blog regularly, but do not always leave comments. Glad you enjoyed the poetry reading. Have a nice week.
Thanks for the critic... I'll take everything into consideration... we'll be performing again at YVCC this weekend at 7 on Saturday...
-M. Alviso
-M. Alviso
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: 2:20 PM
Thanks Ms Alviso! I'll put that you are there on a top of the list update, and if I'm able to make it, I will!
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