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Allan Wolf
Website: http://www.allanwolf.com

Allan's latest book, More Than Friends: Poems from Him and Her, is featured in the February 16, 2009 issue of Scholastic's SCOPE magazine. His book shares the front cover with none other than actor Robert Paittinson of the movie, Twilight. The SCOPE teachers' edition includes classroom activities based on the book.	Allan Wolf is an author, poet, performer and educator who lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and three kids. After three years teaching at Virginia Tech, Wolf became the Educational Director for Poetry Alive!, a national touring company that presents theatrical poetry shows for all ages. Wolf is also a member of The Dead Poets, a musical trio who transform classic poetry into toe-tapping tunes. An active organizer in the early days of the poetry slam competitions, Wolf's mission has always been to take poetry to the people. His home town made history in 1995 as the smallest city to ever win the coveted National Poetry Slam Championship title. Wolf now writes and presents full time. His books include The Blood-Hungry Spleen and Other Poems About Our Parts (Candlewick Press), and New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery (Candlewick Press), a novel in verse chosen as a School Library Journal Best Book, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and an IRA Children's Book Award Notable. He is the author of a book about writing poems titled, Immersed In Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet's Life (Lark Books) and a new YA novel in verse titled Zane's Trace (Candlewick Press). Conducting more than one hundred presentations every year, Allan Wolf is a veteran traveler through all the diverse worlds of verse from poetry slams to public schools, salons to saloons. And with literally hundreds of poems committed to memory, Wolf is always ready to spin out a stanza or two. Got rhyme?

Phillip Shabazz
Website: http://www.phillipshabazz.net

"Writing is my key to the mind, my door to the heart, my window to the soul."	In the beginning, Shabazz started out as a singer/songwriter. He dreamed of "making it" in the music business, but instead found himself chasing a dream that seemed out of reach. One of the hardest decisions he made was to leave his band, and stop writing songs. Later, he turned to literature and poetry. Shabazz says, "For me, poetry is a creative reflection of our experiences. It bears witness to our existence, and like artistic expression, poetry will be with us as long as we have a heart."Phillip Shabazz is a poet, writer, and teaching artist whose work engages issues of community, youth, and culture in America.

Emma Elisabeth Fosso McNairy
Website: N/A

	I am in the midst of the marvelous maelstrom that is my first semester of sophomore year at Salem Academy, a girl's boarding school in Winston-Salem. When not totally immersed in exceedingly challenging yet immensely rewarding classes, I wander through graveyards and study in the verdant haven of Salem Square. Every day I strive to find time to drink tea, write, and keep up my snail-mail correspondence with friends and family back home in Chapel Hill. I love travel, coffee shops, and the Duke University libraries. I have been published in The Carrboro Free Press, Teen Ink, the West End Poetry Newsletter, and the literary magazines of East Chapel Hill High School and Phillips Middle School. I am a scholarship recipient at Salem Academy, won the Carrboro Youth Poetry contest in 2009, and placed second in the Pauli Murray Human Rights Student Essay Contest. I attended the Juniper Institute for Young Writers this past summer and contribute to my school newspaper.

Elizabeth Yang
Website: N/A

	Eight-year-old Elizabeth Yang, currently a 4th grader at Seawell Elementary, is an avid reader, and has a love for math. She wrote "The Magicmathical Interchange" earlier this year while she was a 3rd grader at Carrboro Elementary in Ms. Lynn Arden's class. Elizabeth has many interests and intends to be a poet, a musician, a doctor, an artist, a writer, a pilot, an inventor, a marine scientist, an astronaut, and a president.

Nazim Hikmet
Website: http://www.nazimhikmetpoetryfestival.org

	Buket Aydemir was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. After obtaining her BS in Electrical Engineering (EE) from METU, Ankara, Turkey, she came to U.S.A. in 1982. She completed her Masters in EE and enrolled in an EE PhD program. Buket has been working in telecommunications industry for more than 25 years. In addition, she has been participating in several volunteer activities, many of which involve sharing her knowledge of Turkish Culture and Language such as teaching Turkish to adults and visiting area school to introduce students to Turkish culture and history. She is a vibrant story teller who creates her own stories with cultural motives. During her 17 years in NC, she fulfilled many responsibilities in the American Turkish Association of North Carolina (ATA-NC). Buket was one of the initiators of the Turkish school and Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival. Pelin Bali was born and raised in Turkey. She graduated with BSc Degree in Computer Science Engineering in 1990 from Ege University, Turkey. She came to United States in 1996 after receiving a job offer to work as an IT consultant. She works as a Database Manager for a private company. She is also the owner of a graphic & web design company Bali & Bali Works and volunteer art teacher at American Turkish Association of North America. Mehmet C. Ozturk was born and raised in Turkey. After receiving his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, he came to US to pursue his graduate studies. He received his MS degree from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI and his PhD degree from NC State University in Raleigh, NC both in Electrical Engineering. After graduation, he joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University where he currently holds the rank of professor. Dr. Ozturk's research interests focus on nanotechnology and it applications. He has organized many international conferences in his field of interest and he has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences. In 1995, he was given the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award of the National Science Foundation. In 2009, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He currently serves as the director of NCSU Nanofabrication Facility and Triangle National Lithography Center. Outside work, he enjoys playing his classical guitar and composes for the instrument. He put several poems of Nazim Hikmet to music and one of his songs, "Memleketim" was recorded by Grup Merhaba in Turkey. Birgul Tuzlali was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. During her college years, she was introduced to, and nurtured her passion for art and poetry as an intern at well known Turkish daily news papers in the press district of Istanbul. Later, she graduated from Istanbul University Law School and practiced law for ten years prior to coming to the US. Currently, Birgul works in the legal department of a global multi-national company located in Raleigh. She has also served in her community as the board member and president of ATA-NC, received the Daughters of Ataturk Women of Distinction Award and continues to be an active member of the association. She is also a member of various local as well as international organizations. Birgul is a passionate Nazim fan and a poetry lover.

Mimi Herman
Website: N/A

	Since 1990, Mimi Herman has traveled all over North Carolina as a teaching artist. She has taught over 20,000 students and teachers "many of whom would rather scrub a bathtub than write a poem" to fall in love with writing. She is the North Carolina coordinator for Poetry Out Loud and is the poetry course mentor for the Lesley University M. Ed. Creative Arts in Learning Program. As one student says of her time with Mimi, "It is an experience that I will hold with me throughout my whole life."

Pamela Richardson
Website: N/A

	Pamela Richardson lives in Charlotte, NC and teaches Composition and Literature of Subcultures, which focuses on Punk and Goth, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is also the coordinator of annual English Department Fair's Poet's Corner and the founder of the Post a Poem initiative. Her work is heavily informed by years of studying and working with film, and she approaches each piece as an experimental film expressed through words, instead of literal images.

Christopher Salerno
Website: http://christophersalerno.blogspot.com

	Christopher Salerno’s first book, “Whirligig,” was published by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House, 2006. Other poems can be found in Verse, The Colorado Review, Jubilat, Jacket, The Tiny, The New Hampshire Review, American Letters and Commentary, MiPOesias, Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, Free Verse, Lit, Forklift Ohio, Octopus, Coconut, The Laurel Review, and others. He teaches at North Carolina State University where he is co-curator of the So and So Reading Series and Poetry Editor for The Raleigh Quarterly. He was recently awarded the Independent Weekly Poetry Prize.

David Need
Websites: http://odeo.com/episodes/1224001-Chance-is-Chance-by-David-Need http://odeo.com/episodes/1224046-David-Need-An-Angel-At-My-Throat http://fascicle.com/issue02/poems/need1.htm http://www.mipoesias.com/2006/need1.html
	David Need lives in Durham with his wife and four cats and teaches at Duke in the Department of Religion, the Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department and in International Comparative Studies. His poetry and criticism can be found in Fascicle, Talisman, Mipoesias, Effing Magazine, Minor Americans, and Hambone. Recent manuscripts include a long poem "St. John's Rose Slumber" and two works in progress, "Offshore St. Mark" and "Places I have Lived".


Jeffery Beam
Website:http://www.unc.edu/~jeffbeam/index.html

	Poet, photographer, editor, and critic Jeffery Beam is the author of numerous award-winning works including Visions of Dame Kind (The Jargon Society), An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold (Horse and Buggy), The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems 1969 - 2007 (White Crane Wisdom Series), The Fountain (NC Wesleyan College Press), the online book, Gospel Earth (Longhouse), and the forthcoming expanded Gospel Earth (Skysill Press, England). His spoken word CD with multimedia, What We Have Lost: New and Selected Poems 1977-2001, was a 2003 Audio Publishers Award finalist. The Carnegie Hall premiered song cycle, Life of the Bee, with composer Lee Hoiby, continues to be performed on the international stage and can be heard on Albany Record's New Growth. Beam, poetry editor of the print and online literary journal Oyster Boy Review.


Dave Manning
Websites: http://www.mainstreetrag.com http://www.puddinghouse.com
	David Treadway Manning is a Pushcart nominee with poems in a number of journals and five chapbooks including The Ice-Carver, winner of the 2004 Longleaf Chapbook Competition, and most recently Detained by the Authorities (Pudding House, 2007). His full-length collection, The Flower Sermon, was published by Main Street Rag in 2007. My new poetry chapbook, Light Sweet Crude, is now available at: Quail Ridge Books and Music (Wade Ave. Raleigh) 919-828-1588 McIntyres Fine Books (Fearrington Village) 919-542-3030 Regulator Bookshop (soon) (Ninth St., Durham) 919-286-2700


Ricky Garni
Website: http://www.tortillaexmachina.blogspot.com Website: http://www.omnitele.blogspot.com ("Tele-Fricassee" writing project in progress) Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133949286931&index=1

EXTENDED EVENT NOTICE: THE 21 BOOKS RELEASE PARTY will be held at The Looking Glass Cafe on Saturday, evening, October 24, 2009 at 8:00. This event celebrates the 1st release of 21 individual works of poetry and prose by the poet Ricky Garni, whose work, until this time, has only been available in anthologies and limited release print and web publications. Ricky will read from many of the works on Saturday, and will have a single copy of each book available for sale at that time.	(1) Ricky Garni is a graphic designer who moved from 105 Fidelity Street Apt B-17 to 105 Fidelity Street Apt B-35 and is still suffering a little from culture shock: "The areas seems the same at first, but there are nuances in the languages that differ in subtle ways, and you have to be careful what you say, especially with the elders of the village in this region." Mr. Garni sighs. "I don't think I will never get used to slurping my soup or the way they treat animals over her. Sometimes I miss the my old life…" (2) Ricky Garni is a graphic designer and musician who graduated from Duke University and lost his diploma and his favorite La-Z-Boy recliner. I know, I know-how do you lose a recliner? He did though. As for the diploma, smart money says that it was wedged into the little fanny area of the recliner since that's where most things end up. (3) Ricky Garni has worked as a graphic designer, a teacher, a warehouse manager, a wine merchant, a recording engineer, and, for one day, a bathroom attendant in a Pizzeria on Miami Beach that had a rather dainty and elderly thermostat and it was summer. Mr. Garni has written poetry and prose since 1974 and has been published fairly often in print and on the Web. He loves old movies and bicycles and still likes pizza, but prefers the honest, wholesome, North Carolina variety.


Tyler Johnson
Website: http://www.aCommonLast.com

	Tyler R. Johnson is a writer, musician and engineer living in Carrboro, North Carolina. He was raised near Scotchtown in Virginia, in a log cabin built by his father. His work is rooted in a sort of new southern agrarianism, but his voice is shaped by a world bristling with technology. Much of Tyler's new work explores traditional music and dance and the ways in which these expressions connect us in communities and across time. Tyler's first book of poems, "The Swamps That Close", was published in 2004 through Lulu. A second book of poetry and a novel are forthcoming. Tyler will read from his first book and also will present new work.

Alice Osborn
Website: http://www.aliceosborn.com

	Alice Osborn is a freelance writer offering editing and writing services to small businesses and creatives. Alice is the author of Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006). Her poetry has appeared in Main Street Rag, the 2008 and 2009 Kakalak Poetry Anthologies, the Raleigh Quarterly, Soundings Review, Gutter Eloquence Magazine, the Cape Fear Poetry Foundation Anthology and more. Alice grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and in Charleston, SC, but now lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, son and daughter. The title of her reading is "Bake Until the Steaming Stops." Her poetry genre is literary to include persona and memoir poems.


Ann Clinard Barnhill
Website: http://www.anneclinardbarnhill.com

THE POOL ROOM There's one in every coal town-- A grimy place where underground men Surface to breathe fresh air. It's a place for beer and brag, Ass-kickin and tall-tellin. Over a cue ball a man can feel himself Match enough for mountains-- Think straight after a stooped day in the shaft. Ain't no need for women, Ain't no loneliness a good juke box can't kill.	Anne Clinard Barnhill has been writing or dreaming of writing for most of her life. For the past twenty years, she has published articles, book and theater reviews, poetry, and short stories. Her first book, AT HOME IN THE LAND OF OZ, recalls what it was like growing up with an autistic sister. Her work has won various awards and grants. Barnhill holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Besides writing, Barnhill also enjoys teaching, conducting writing workshops, and facilitating seminars to enhance creativity. She loves spending time with her three grown sons and their families. For fun, she and her husband of thirty years, Frank, take long walks and play bridge. In rare moments, they dance.

Virginia Lee Sprague
Website: http://www.goodkindling.com

	I was born in Cameroon, Africa where I played with baby gorillas, was given sugar cane for a treat and almost died of malaria. When we moved to the States, there were still many adventures in the woods, fields and mountains of central Pennsylvania and adventures of a different kind when I moved to Chicago in the late 70's. Although I avoided the city's poetry slams, I did participate in open mics and was often left with a feeling of envy, awe and exhilaration after hearing the poetic gifts of others. The inspiration for my work comes from such diverse sources as a story on NPR, a dream, or an interaction I observe in a grocery store. I consider it a great compliment when after some random comment of mine, one of my sisters said that I think outside the box. The family joke is my response, "What box?" or sometimes even "What is a box?". One of my deepest and most cherished beliefs is that everyone is capable of transformation. I live, write, work, play and hopefully transform in Carrboro, NC


Stephanie Levin
Website: http://www.slevin.blogspot.com

	Abbreviated Biography: I am a 36 year old teacher and poet. After living in various East Coast states over the years, I settled in Chapel Hill in 2007 with my two daughters. Although I have enjoyed creative writing since elementary school, I became serious about poetry in high school with the help of an incredible teacher. This year, I am the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council grant for poetry. Description of What I'll be Reading: Some of the work I will be reading will come from my yet-unpublished manuscript, My Mother's Inventions. Many of the poems in this collection explore the beauty and mystery of the spiritual beliefs with which I was raised juxtaposed with the gritty, dark happenings in my family. Others portray the aftermath of my brother's death through recollections of mundane events like receiving a telemarketing call or walking through Target.

Kevin Dublin
Websites: http://www.kevindublin.com http://www.poemworkshop.com http://www.etchedpress.com
	Kevin Dublin is a senior in Creative Writing and English Professional Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His writing usually focuses on life and loss. His most memorable poems are about meeting Yusef Komunyakaa, his relationship with his pencil, a love poem for the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, and a poem about the accident that killed the family of his high school love.

Kim Holzer
Website: http://www.lionessden.com

	Kim Holzer is a former Pushcart Prize nominee and National Poetry Slam Champion whose 2007 chapbook, All of the Above, was published to benefit women in the Texas Jail Literacy Project. She has been the recipient of a North Carolina Emerging Artists Grant, and was one of five American women featured in London and Denmark during the American Amazons of the Dying Millennium Tour. The author of two critically-acclaimed one-person plays, she has performed and published her work throughout the United States and Europe. She teaches English at Carrboro High School, and gave birth to her first child in the spring of 2009.

Grey Brown
Website: http://www.greybrownpoetry.com http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0430c09.mp3/view (State of Things interview)

Title of Reading: When They Tell Me, poems from the journey through autism	Grey Brown is the author of Staying In, winner of the North Carolina Writers' Network Chapbook Contest. Her second chapbook, When They Tell Me, was recently released from Finishing Line Press and her first full length collection, What It Takes, will be released from Turning Point in 2010. Grey is the recipient of a 2009 Emerging Artist Grant from the Durham Arts Council and a finalist for the Piedmont Poet Laureate Contest. She is the director of the literary arts program for Health Arts Network at Duke Medical Center where she offers writing workshops to patients, visitors and staff and is a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Duke University. Her poems have been published in Greensboro Review, Blue Pitcher, Peregrine, Kakalak, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Mothering Magazine and other journals. Grey lives in Carrboro with her two daughters and with her two dogs, Marilyn Monroe, a three-legged white lab and Audrey Hepburn, a spirited miniature Italian Grey Hound.

Glenn Cassidy
Website: http://www.anglesandrhymes.blogspot.com

	Glenn Cassidy is a consultant and educator based in Carrboro, NC. He has a Ph.D. in public policy analysis and has taught public finance at several universities including UNC Chapel Hill. In addition to his research, he has published poetry and short fiction, often addressing public policy issues as well as math and science. Much of his poetry makes use of humor and satire.

Michael Smith
Website: http://www.southeastreview.org http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/mudlark30/contents.html http://www.versedaily.org/2008/aboutmikesmithhtmam.shtml http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20080706/books/books/20080706ssmithsmith.html

	Mike Smith was born in the mountain town of Philippi, West Virginia, grew up in Greensboro, NC and now lives near Raleigh with his young daughter and son. He holds degrees from UNC-G, Hollins College, and the University of Notre Dame, and served, most recently, as Writer-in-Residence at American University. He has published three chapbooks, including Anagrams of America, which is permanently archived at Mudlark: Electronic Journal of Poetry and Poetics, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize four times. He was an inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative's Poetry Chapbook Contest in 2006, and has had poems appear in more than 40 journals, including the Carolina Quarterly, Gulf Stream, The Iowa Review, The North American Review, and The Notre Dame Review. His first full-length collection, How to Make a Mummy, was published in 2008. His second collection, Multiverse, will be published this January by BlazeVOX Books (Buffalo, NY).

Joanna Catherine Scott
Website: http://www.joannacatherinescott.com

	JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT is the author of the novels Child of the South; The Road from Chapel Hill; Cassandra, Lost; The Lucky Gourd Shop; and Charlie, the nonfiction Indochina's refugees: Oral Histories from LAos, Cambodia and Vietnam; and the prizewinning poetry collections Breakfast at the Shangri-la, Fainting at the Uffizi, and Night Huntress.

Alex grant
Website: http://redroom.com/author/alex-grant http://www.fbook.me/alexgrant http://redroom.com/audio/jane-crown-radio-show-interview-and-reading http://redroom.com/audio/may-2008-npr-interview-frank-stasio-alex-grant

	Alex Grant's chapbook Chains & Mirrors(NCWN/Harperprints) won the 2006 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Award(Best North Carolina poetry collection). His second chapbook, The White Book, was released in 2008 by Main St. Rag Publishing. His full-length collection, Fear of Moving Water, will be released in late 2009 by Wind Publications. His poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Best New Poets 2007, Arts & Letters, The Connecticut Review, Nimrod and elsewhere.

Katie Bowler
Website: http://www.katiebowler.com

Photo by: Donn Young	KATIE BOWLER was born and raised near New Orleans, LA. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, she returned to the city to salvage photographs, art, and pieces of New Orleans' cultural history. In State Steet, she explores loss of home and homeland, experiences the panic and awe of the familiar becoming unfamiliar, and finds among the wreckage humanity, humor and hope. "State Street is a remarkable act of salvage. Katie Bowler's driven, encompassing narrative careens with dark humor, anger, grief, and grit through the surreal Katrina landscape. She's both in its midst - a human eye of the storm - and at 'a great distance,' seeing with compassion and shrewd clarity. The reader senses Bowler's faith in her course throughout - that out of the chaos and detritus and loss, bolstered by the conjured presences of friends and family, she can make meaning. Art is what's rescued; art becomes the rescuer. Bowler's 'small survival' is an impressive achievement." - Debra Allbery Gildea

Bruce Lader
Website: http://www.BruceLader.com

	Bruce Lader's second full-length poetry book is Landscapes of Longing (Main Street Rag, 2009). His first full-length collection, Discovering Mortality, was a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell Award. He has published poems in over 100 international journals and anthologies, including Poetry, New York Quarterly, the Humanist, International Poetry Review, Harpur Palate, New Millennium Writings, Margie, Poet Lore, Asheville Poetry Review, and Against Agamemnon: War Poems. A former Writer-in-Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Colony, he has received an honorarium from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Bruce has been interviewed on radio stations in Santa Barbara, California and Taos, New Mexico. He has co-founded six poetry groups in the Triangle area, four that currently meet and one which has been in continual existence since 1992. Bruce Lader taught disadvantaged and special needs children in New York City from 1970-1979. He has also worked as a poet in the schools of New York City, Santa Barbara, California, and Raleigh where he is the founding director of Bridges Tutoring, an organization educating multicultural students. A jazz enthusiast and nature lover, he has published many poems about jazz and freelanced environmental and botanical articles for magazines.

Jaki Shelton Green Keynote Poet
Website: http://jakisheltongreen.blogspot.com htpp:// ncpoetlaureate.blogspot.com

	Jaki Shelton Green was selected as the first NC Piedmont Poet Laureate in 2008 and received the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2003. She is the 2007 recipient of the Sam Ragan Award and a member of the prestigious North Caroliniana Society. Her poetry has appeared in publications such as Solo Press, The Crucible, The African-American Review, Obsidian, Ms. Magazine, Essence Magazine, KAKALAK, Emigration, Immigration, and Diversity, Callaloo, Black Poets Lean South Anthology published by Cave Canem, the PEDESTAL Poetry Journal and Poets for Peace. Her publications include Dead on Arrival, Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Masks, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, breath of the song, and Blue Opal, a play. In 2005, breath of the song, was cited as one of two BEST POETRY BOOKS OF THE YEAR by the Independent Weekly. She has performed her poetry and taught workshops extensively throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, Central and South America. Her poetry has been choreographed by the Chuck Davis African Dance Ensemble in conjunction with the Kennedy Center and the Nasher Museum at Duke University, Two Near the Edge Dance Company, ChoreoCollective, Danca Nova Dance Company in conjunction with the Colorado Naropa Dance Institute and Miami City Ballet. Jaki Shelton Green holds a Master's Degree in Community Economic Development from the Development Training Institute, University of Maryland and maintains an independent consultancy specializing in nonprofit board training, arts and education, and the humanities. In addition, Green continues to teach creative writing to marginalized populations of our society such as the homeless, the newly literate, the incarcerated and the writer-as-survivor. She collaborates as a creativity coach with human service agencies, corporations, and non-profit organizations whose focus is using writing and creativity as tools of healing and transformation. Her workshops such as "Building Community through Poetry and the Arts" are available through the North Carolina Humanities Council Speaker's Bureau. Jaki Shelton Green serves as the spokeswoman for the NC Women's Health Report Card, Center for Women's Heath Research at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In 2006 she was awarded a residency at the Taller Portobelo Artist Colony in historic Portobelo Panama.

Josephus III An Intimate Evening of acoustic Soul Poetry
Website: http://www.josephusiii.com

	Fusion of poetry and art that comes together Fusion of poetry and art that comes together through the passion and purpose of spoken word poetry, acoustic melodies and soulful vocals on stage. Josephus accompanied by a dancer, singer and musicians help tap the rhythm of life and bring new meaning and understanding to his words. "With the mind of an engineer, the voice of a poet and the heart and soul of a visionary, Josephus III is constantly transcending barriers. As a teacher and lecturer he works in both the educational and corporate setting focusing on "Education through Correlation", as well as showing students the importance of writing and poetry and how it directly relates to their life. "Life is a collective experience, a group effort, a journey that we must work together to complete."

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