[PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Listserv] FOR ALL YOU LOVERS OF THE SPOKEN WORD-COME OUT THIS MONDAY NIGHT

[Jaamil Kosoko]

Click to listen to poems by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
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> KOSOKO/perFORMance:
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> http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/409880
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> I would like to invite you to an intimate staged reading of new and
> selected work of which I'll be presenting at the CENTRAL LIBRARY in
> Philadelphia; Skyline Room, 4th Floor, on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 7pm,
> 1901 Vine Street, Center City. FREE event and open to the public.
> www.kosokoperFORMance.org <http://www.kosokoperformance.org/> for more
> information.  Please RSVP at kosoko.performance at yahoo.com as there will be
> light refreshments before the reading.  This is also the official launch
> of my chapbook, NINTH SIGN OF ZODIAC, so please come and show your
> support.  I look forward to seeing you there.  (Official Press Release Below
> should anyone want to write about event.) SPREAD the WORD!!!!
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> Effigy
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>             Was it Tina or Peaches, one of my mother's
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>             vindictive personalities, who set the house
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>             on fire with her brother still in it?  When
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>             I went to visit him in the Burned Victims Unit,
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>             the doctors had just finished ventilating his lungs.
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>             The hours hung long around his muscular-melted frame
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>             like a bandage.  Medical devices worked electric magic
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>             to keep him alive.  The past five nights, he'd spent
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>             locked in an air chamber.  Finally out of danger,
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>             God was a reflection in the room--in the mirrors,
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>             the windows, anything that let light in.  The day
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>             the gauze and layers of cotton were removed,
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>             he was unrecognizable cooked meat.
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>             His mother said he was such a beautiful man,
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>             had such nice feet. The ten years after the blaze,
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>             Lucifer took the shape of a drink he could not
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>             put down.  Now, uncle is the 40 year old living definition
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>             of a burnt blessing staggering in new skin, only
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>             a trace of physical heat is left.  Epidermal theft.
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>             Crazy mother, you lifted the man's clothes right off
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>             his back. Scorched shirt singed while on the rack,
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>             ignite the black leather coat.  Some nights he wakes
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>             in the hot rooms of his body still filled with smoke.
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> *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
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> FOR PRESS INFORMATION:
> JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO
> KOSOKO/PERFORMANCE
> KOSOKO.PERFORMANCE at YAHOO.COM
> WWW.KOSOKOPERFORMANCE.ORG <http://www.kosokoperformance.org/>
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>  CHAPBOOK LAUNCH AND READING OF
> "Ninth Sign of Zodiac" at the Central Library
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> Poet and performance artist, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko will read from his new
> poetry collection "Ninth Sign of Zodiac" at the Central Library, Skyline
> Room on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 7pm, 1901 Vine Street, Center City. FREE
> event and open to the general public. www.kosokoperFORMance.org<http://www.kosokoperformance.org/> for
> more information.
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> Kosoko's work has been published in The Dunes Review, The Interlochen
> Review, Silo Literary and Visual Arts Magazine, The Broadstreet Review, as
> well as other presses.  He has been Poet-in-Residence at the Hudson School,
> Hoboken, NJ, and received a full scholarship to attend the Controlled Burn
> Seminar for Writers, Higgins Lake, MI.  He's been a featured poet at the
> Brookline Poetry Series, Boston, MA, and continues to read, perform and
> teach poetic and performance craft throughout the United States.  Currently,
> Kosoko is completing his first full-length collection of poems entitled
> "NOTES from the GOSPEL HOUSE."
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> Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
> KOSOKO/PERFORMANCE
> www.kosokoperformance.org
> kosoko.performance at yahoo.com
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