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Tag Archives: post colonial literature
BCP READS @ POVERTY TO POWER 2013
Poverty to Power Reading By Jorge Antonio Vallejos Photo by Gerardo Correa This past Monday I presented 3 poems about racism in the workplace, violence against Aboriginal women, and the prison industrial complex at the Colour of Poverty 2013 conference: … Continue reading
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Tagged Amani, Colour of Poverty, decolonization literature, Feminist poetry, George Elliott Clarke, Jane Creba, Mayor David Miller, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, poetry, post colonial literature, Poverty and addiction, poverty and violence, Poverty poems, Prison Industrial Complex, Racism in the workplace, Rebellion poems, Rebellion Prose, Resistance Poems, Resistance Prose, Violence Against Women, Violence in the workplace
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READING AT SPINLAW 2013: SPREADING THE ROOTS AND REACH OF THE LIVING TREE
Reading at SPINLAW 2013: Spreading the Roots and Reach of the Living Tree By Jorge Antonio Vallejos Early this year I was commissioned to write a poem for the SPINLAW conference, 30 Years Under the Living Tree: Reflections on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Commissioned Poet, Decolonization, decolonization literature, First Nations Peoples, How To Write A Poem, Human Rights, Idle No More, Indidgenous Solidarity, Indigenous Feminism, Missing and Murdered Abor, Osgoode Hall, poetry, post colonial literature, racism, Rebellion Poetry, Rebellion Prose, Resistance Poetry, Resistance Prose, SPINLAW 2013, Transphobia, Violence Against Women
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Wednesday March 20, 2013 Dear Readers, Do you know that you can subscribe to blackcoffeepoet.com for FREE? Do you know that I have a YOUTUBE Channel that is a companion to blackcoffeepoet.com? You can subscribe to my blog by clicking … Continue reading
MALIKAH AWE:RI AND ROGER LANGEN READ THEIR POEMS FROM RESISTANCE POETRY #2
Meeting Malikah Awe:ri to tape her reading from Resistance Poetry #2 was great. I was a guest on her show with Dane Swan; we talked poems, read poems, and learned about poetry from each other. My interview with Malikah was … Continue reading
NATIVE WOMEN AND TWO-SPIRITS SPEAK OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE!!!
This week on blackcoffeepoet.com we brought attention to the Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada via an Opinion Editorial by Anishinaabe Kwe Christine Luza, a Letter by Cindy Bourgeois to her Transgender sisters asking them to care … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadas Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, First Nations Women, Helen Betty Osborne, Indigenous Feminism, Marilyn Dumont, Metis poet, Native Women Speak Out Against Violence, post colonial literature, Rebellion Poetry, Rebellion Prose, Resistance Poetry, Resistance Prose, Revoluntionary Prose, Revolutionary Poems, Two Spirit Poet, Violence Against Women
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DANE SWAN READS “PARKDALE SNOWSTORM”
Reading and reviewing Dane Swan’s book Bending The Continuum was a pleasure. My interview with Swan was just as much fun. Hear Dane Swan read Parkdale Snowstorm. Watch, SHARE, Tweet, enjoy. Subscribe to the Black Coffee Poet YOUTUBE … Continue reading
INTERVIEW WITH DANE SWAN
Dane Swan was born and raised in Bermuda to a Bermudian father and Jamaican mother. Visiting family involved trips to small villages in Jamaica and big cities like New York. The great story-tellers he heard in these communities were his … Continue reading
BENDING THE CONTINUUM
Bending The Continuum By Dane Swan Reviewed by Jorge Antonio Vallejos Meeting Dane Swan before absorbing his book gave me an idea of what I was going to be reading: well written poems that didn’t pull punches. The Pugilist is … Continue reading
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Tagged "Bending The Continuum" by Dane Swan, Anti Colonial Literature, Black History Month, Black History Poems, Black poetry, Canadian Racism, Dane Swan, decolonization literature, First Nations People, Guernica publisher, Idle No More, Political poetry, post colonial literature, Rebellion Poetry, Rebellion Prose, Resistance Poetry, Resistance Prose, Toronto poet
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