Tag Archives: Indigenous Solidarity

IT’S ABOUT COMMUNITY, NOT COMPETITION

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Black Coffee Poet

It’s About Community, Not Competition By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I’ve been running my website for two years and five months.  My concept in terms of how I highlight writers is original: review, interview, video.  It’s a whole week on a … Continue reading →

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INTERVIEW WITH ZORRAS

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Black Coffee Poet

Scottish-Canadian poet Sandra Alland and Belgian-Venezuelan musician Y. Josephine formed the multimedia performance troupe, Zorras, in Edinburgh in 2007. They quickly became known for their unique bilingual mixture of text, sound poetry, percussion, singing, guitar, megaphones and projected images. Zorras inject passion and humour into both … Continue reading →

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ZAINAB AMADAHY READS HER POETRY

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Black Coffee Poet

I met Zainab in 2005 at an Indigenous solidarity meeting.  We immediately connected. The past five years has seen us attend many political events together, engage in long conversations on the phone and over coffees while discussing mixed race identity, … Continue reading →

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