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 Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator Regie Gibson has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other venues on two continents and in seven countries. Most recently in Havana Cuba. Regie and his work appear in the New Line Cinema film love jones, based largely on events in his life. The poem entitled "Brother to the Night (A Blues for Nina)" appears on the movie soundtrack and is performed by the film's star, Larenz Tate. Regie performed "Hey Nappyhead" in the film with world-renowned percussionist and composer Kahil El Zabar, composer of the score for the musical The Lion King.
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 “The trio was a surprise hit of the Boston Music Awards. And it's the glue at the Lizard on Sunday, weaving sinuous riffs that meld uncannily with the rhythm of the poetry.”
Steve Morse, The Boston Globe
“The Jeff Robinson Trio is one of the most innovative and revolutionary bands of today that mixes the old with a new kind of flavor.” - Abiodun Oyewole, The Last Poets
“Magicians! Wizards! The Jeff Robinson Trio is the best poetry band in the country” Marc Smith - founder of the Poetry Slam
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 Nicole Terez was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has appeared in Can We Have Our Ball Back?, 580 Split, Gathering Ground, Folio: A Literary Journal, and the Indiana Review. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and the Writer's Room and is a finalist 2006 Hurston/Wright Foundation Fiction Award. She earned an MFA from Brown University and currently lives in Boston.
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 The author of seventeen books, including eight volumes of poetry, the latest of which is The Architecture of Language, recipient of the 2007 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement. He received the 2003 Milt Kessler Poetry Award for Transcircularities: New and selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2002), selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best books of poetry published in 2002. Transcircularities was also a finalist for the 2003 Paterson Poetry Prize. |
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 Patricia Smith's latest poetry book, Teahouse of the Almighty, was chosen by Edward Sanders as a 2005 National Poetry Series winner (Coffee House Press), and was also awarded the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is also the author of three previous books of poetry -- Close to Death (Zoland Books), Big Towns, Big Talk (Zoland Books) and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Chautauqua Literary Journal, TriQuarterly, and other journals, and in many groundbreaking anthologies--most recently Gathering Ground, The Spoken Word Revolution, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry and Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry. Her poem "The Way Pilots Walk" received a Pushcart Prize, and will appear in Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses.
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