A 9/11 retrospective

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Where the poets’ roost

A view thru dust & rubble

The anniver­sary of 9/11 was a very spe­cial night at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe. There was no cel­e­bra­tion that “the evil” had been cleansed from the Amer­i­can psy­che, most if not all in atten­dance under­stood that mur­der is not a cura­tive for mur­der; that a shot above the left eye of Osama by spe­cial ops dressed in black did not and could not bring back the souls thrown into the male­strom by vengeance.

No, there was reflec­tion and pro­jec­tion. There was remem­ber­ing and re-membering. 

There was the very real under­stand­ing that the gov­ern­ment entrusted to secure our lives needed to be ques­tioned and held to account. And Word­slinger Emmanuel Ortiz is push­ing for poets of color to a meet in a series of Sun­day morn­ing sit downs to bring your work to the round­table. It’s an oppor­tu­nity to lis­ten and to be heard.  

Sun­day, 10:30AM at TRIAAC, 501 E. Brack­en­ridge Street. If you have an inter­est, call TRIAAC, 260 969‑9442. 

It’s some­what com­fort­ing to know that in a con­ser­v­a­tive city in the Mid­west there is a com­mu­nity of con­science.

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