umüvme (you-move-me)
lu-fuki meets the sugar honey iced tea. bombastic & ecstatic poetry tracks. instant-vintage live performances. copasetic conversations. acquire the taste for poetry & become a connoisseur. then call-in to share your two cents on the open mic. learn more about your hosts yolanda & mark here.
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umüvme: tues. 2/17 @ 9pm |
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umüvme's feature poet LIVE in studio: from an early age, PLUM DRAGONESS a.k.a. GABRIELLE B.C. has had a profound interest in the performing arts, involving her in cross-cultural ventures that bridge the gaps between traditional dance, theater & present day urban expressions of life / her background in costume production, dance, voice, film acting, poetry as performance & martial/internal arts techniques make a significant contribution to her creation of innovative performance art...
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umüvme: tues. 2/10 @ 9pm |
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featured poet LIVE in studio, DENICE FROHMAN: published poet, lyricist, creative producer & educator who has been writing and performing for over 6 years / raised by a puerto rican mother & jewish father in new york city & proudly a part of the lgbt community, frohman is an emerging voice in the poetry & spoken word movements / chosen by scheme magazine as one of the "2009 voices of the year," she is most known for combining the worlds of hip hop & contemporary poetry / as a former puerto rican professional basketball player, frohman also straddles the worlds of sports & art / with a B.A. in creative writing, frohman currently works in public relations & teaches workshops at high schools, community centers & cultural institutions. |
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umüvme: tues. 1/20 @ 9pm |
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got that inaugural good itch?: get it scratched some mo tonight on umüvme / we're celebratin mlk, shirley chisholm & obama w/ some throwback oratory / for appetizers we got the audio from elizabeth alexander's inaugural poem--will we kiss it or diss it? / sprinkle in some o' kerouac's & pedro pietri's underbelly / mix in some sonia sanchez blue-black-magic-liberation songs from backintheday / a dash of contempoetry by aichlee bushnell, omar telan, & joel dias-porter / & the main course is u on the open mic: call us @ 215.609-4301 |
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verbal roots open mic |
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germantown's new homegrown poetry reading @ the legendary LaRose Social Club @ 5531 germantown avenue, phila, pa 19144. open mic + feature. doors & mic open @ 7pm. $5 cover / $3 students with ID. proceeds benefit the 2009 germantown poetry festival.
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umüvme: tues. 1/13 @ 9pm |
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featured guest LIVE IN STUDIO: philadelphia artist theodore a. harris has been creating some of the best political collage work of the past decade / his collages have recently been published alongside the poetry of amiri baraka in the book our flesh of flames / & he writes a mean jazz-tinged poetry all his own... |
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umüvme: tues. 1/6 @ 9pm |
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attitudinal in 09: we're spinnin lyrics about the everyday and the ethereal / "personal ad" by allen ginsberg / the acapella stylings of tracy chapman / spotlight on "first writing since" by suheir hammad / poems by philly renaissance poets zenzele & rich medina /& those germantown poetry festival youngbloods... |
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umüvme: tues. 12/30 @ 9pm |
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black eye pea songs for 2009: works on wax/yolanda's womanist ditty for the new year/poet-songwriters/a special poetry café set showcasin the work of youth poets from the 2008 gtown poetry fest/& if you wanna spit/(that is, read a poem on our delightful show)/you best call us at 215-609-4301/don't//be//scurred. . . |
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umüvme: tues. 12/23 @ 9pm |
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red/green/& black poetry: grown-up language advisory / subversive riotous holiday / tonight we're gettin in the kwanzaa spirit with some colorful cussin by america's finest & blackest poets from the 60s & 70s / we might even throw in a christmas tune or two / but don't count on it /& we got poetry news donchaknow / and of course we're featuring the future with fresh poems from the 2008 gtown poetry festival . . . |
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umüvme: tues. 12/16 @ 9pm |
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new skool: tonight we feature the work of hip hop mcs krs-one & common as well as the cave canem stylings of kevin young, christina springer & mendi + keith obadike/we'll also dive into def jammers saul williams, suheir hammad & erykah badu/& don't miss a special poetry café set showcasing the work of student poets from the 2008 germantown poetry festival!
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umüvme: tues. 12/9 @ 9pm |
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ursula rucker's opus: her poems have taken her all over the world from japan to australia to europe, but we claims her as a philly native daughter. tonight, we're featurin the work of this activist, mama supreme, and spoken word griot, startin with her roots debut & introducin you to some new trax from her latest drop, Ruckus Soundsysdom.
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