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MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND: August 2008

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Monday, August 18, 2008. We've been sitting still for a minute but that's only because we're getting ready for a few more big trips. In September, Carlos Andres Gomez will be going to Rwanda and then will meet up with Tahani and Kesed in Durban for the 2008 Poetry Africa festival. MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND. Subscribe Now: Feed Icon. Subscribe in a reader. Subscribe to MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND'S Blog by Email. MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND. MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND.

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MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND: June 2008

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Sunday, June 22, 2008. MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND. Monday, June 9, 2008. What A Night (Frank López - Tanzania). June 8th, 2008. 8220;What’s up my peoples? 8221; in Kiswahili and Spanish) ;). Now let me begin by saying that I did not think that yesterday could be topped. The rush of hanging out with Mzee Pete, Mama Charlotte, and the crew was unreal, but wow… was I wrong. 8217; I didn’t realize you were talking bout rappin’! Dude is hilarious. But still, I must admit that I was a bit nervous to perform in...

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MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND: October 2008

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Monday, October 13, 2008. Photos from Poetry Africa. MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND. Sunday, October 12, 2008. Poem 1 (By Tahani). Like a piano lesson. Patience Passion and Poise. There is a woman’s in the distance. With words written down her face. That I can barley see them. I can close my eyes and see a reel of life’s dedication play for me. I know one day I will have to thank her. For teaching me to listen to the stories of my heart beats. I am grateful for blinking eyes and gods kiss of faith. I am not vain.

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MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND: Roxy from Egypt

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Friday, October 10, 2008. I have gotten into the swing of things, and already have my routines and it scares me. I was going through old journal entries reading about all the little children that would come up to me at the beginning and ask for baksheesh (money). I wrote about all th. E conflicting emotions that where going through my heart. Whether it was wrong or right to give them money what was fifty cents to me? But was I only feeding into a horrible cycle? I am trying so hard to savor these moments.

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MYTH OF THE MOTHERLAND: This was after hearing a poem about heritage (By Tahani)

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Friday, October 10, 2008. This was after hearing a poem about heritage (By Tahani). We have watched the leaves of our lives taken shape. Lined with the journeys of our lineage. Mustered our way to brown. Life lines of wisdom have been spread across my face. By the whisper winds of grandmother stories. We are left wounded in the mist of life lessons we are lifted away by winds kiss. We have fallen from the finger tips of grandfather trees. Falling in to the abyss of life’s twists and turns. Life as a leaf.

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HOLD ON TIGHT

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HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT. And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,. My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,. And I was frightened. He said, Marie,. Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. The Burial of The Dead", Eliot. Thursday, January 22, 2009. Posted by dawn # 2:59 PM. New York Center for Independent Publishing. Association of American University Presses. Aunty zarina (ummi's bakery).

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Partnerships - Academy for Young Writers

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Academy for Young Writers. The Institute for Student Achievement. The Institute for Student Achievement is AFYW's Department of Education intermediary. ISA supported the school in its first four years with a start-up grant and continues to support the school in the form of a Principal/Teacher Coach and professional development opportunities.

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Staff — Dialogue Arts Project

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Uniquely thoughtful and gifted educators. Founder and Executive Director, Facilitator. Adam Falkner is an artist, educator and consultant. His work has appeared in a range of literary and academic journals, and has also been featured on HBO, NBC, NPR, BET, Upworthy, in the New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the pioneering diversity consulting initiative, the Dialogue Arts Project. And Chief Operating Officer of Urban Word NYC. Director of Operation, Facilitator.

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Board of Directors

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Poets and Writers in the Classroom. OK Youth Poet Laureate. Louder Than a Bomb. Teachers and Writers Collective. The Bomb Shelter: Open Mics. Network Initiative 'Lead Coach'. Pam Anderson, President. Beth Cowen, Vice President. Henry Cribbs, Secretary. Anna D. Martin, Treasurer. Louder Than a Bomb. OK Youth Poet Laureate. The Bomb Shelter: Open Mics. Poets and Writers in the Classroom. Teachers and Writers Collective.