Check out the audio from the funk reading over at the IR Blog and you can pretend you were there getting funkified for yourself. It was a pretty amazing night and the earlier panel, which addressed themes of history, memory, race, music, and much more, really demonstrated for me how coming up with new rubrics can jog floating ideas into place or dislodge the stale ones. There are some photos up on the blog too. My little summary of the four readers:Aracelis Girmay is a wise and attentive woman, and I'm digging her book, Teeth.
Tyehimba Jess among other talents, plays a mean harmonica.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a delicate, but hilarious, bird.
Patrick Rosal is my new literary crush. Man can rock a mike with joy.
Up there's Abdel Shakur, master of ceremonies, mad genius behind IR's forthcoming Funk Issue. Photo credit: Ben Weller. I hope he doesn't mind.
3 comments:
Abdel looks like he's about to deliver a groundbreaking political speech. Or get funkified, whichever.
Seriously. Well, you know, he did talk about Obama. At least I think he did. Maybe that was Ross. There were 3 introducers. But yeah, Abdel could be the President of Funk.
Awww!
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