Sunday, February 06, 2011 16th Annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading
Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Langston Hughes’s poems, dating from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s, continue to resonate today. These powerful, poignant and often amusing works are read aloud by members of the community and leaders of diverse backgrounds, including educators, corporate executives, writers, musicians, and artists, accompanied by The Daniel Ian Smith Jazz Trio. A reception follows this free program, presented in coordination with Anne Edmonds Clanton. Co-sponsored by RISD’s English Department. Free and open to all.
This writer will be there representing Kmareka with just a little stage fright. The readers include actors, musicians, poets, college professors and drama students from our city high schools, and they set a high standard.
This is the most poetry I hear all year. Langston Hughes poems are deceptively simple, usually short. Hearing them all together is a different experience as they build and play on one another to form a narrative of the American experience, with special love for Harlem, NY.
Parking is always a challenge, and this year even worse. Info and directions are here. The RIPTA bus tunnel is just a short walk from the N.Main St. entrance to the Museum.
Recurring Nightmare 
nancy-stage fright?c’mon now.you are really at ease in front of GA committees and this will be a friendly,non-controversy seeking audience.
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Hoping to be there…
Do you have any say in what you read or have you been assigned a poem or other text ?
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seriously, this group of readers includes professionals, and the past couple of years seniors from Central High who were incredibly good.
But I’ll be reading a short poem called, Merry-Go-Round, Mr. Green will read Give Us Our Peace.
They serve refreshments after.
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boy,the day my wife ever calls me Mr.Bernstein-I’d have to think-“Invasion of the Body Snatchers”,really.
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