tonite's umüvme (you-move-me) will feature the work of three phenomenal poets: nikki giovanni, willie perdomo & suheir hammad.  tune in for info about upcomin local poetry events & share your work live on the air by callin the studio line @ 215-609-4301.

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this tuesday's umüvme (you-move-me) will feature the work of three poets: the legendary amiri baraka, brazen performance poet christina springer, and philly's own trapeta mayson.  in our segment "triflin tuesday," we'll be talkin about hot mess in the news and the world around us that's worthy of a poem.  tune in for info about upcomin local poetry events & share your work live on the air by callin the studio line @ 215-609-4301.

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tonight on umuvme, we're featurin work by the poets sonia sanchez, emily xyz, & maya angelou.  & there's always time for triflin' tuesday, when we talk about hot mess in the world around us that's worthy of a poem...

got some trifliness or a poem to share on the open mic?  hit us up at (215) 609-4301 on the studio line.

tonight on umuvme, we're featurin work by the poets saul williiams, gil scott-heron & jayne cortez.  we're also rappin about the intersection of poetry & police brutality.  & there's always time for triflin' tuesday, when we talk about hot mess in the world around us that's worthy of a poem...

got some trifliness or a poem to share on the open mic?  hit us up at (215) 609-4301 on the studio line.

visit our archives at umuvme.mypodcast.com.

tonight's umüvme poetry playlist:

"Wild Women Don't Have the Blues" by Ida Cox / "Come On In My Kitchen" by Robert Johnson / "Fog" by Carl Sandburg / "Personals Ad" by Allen Ginsberg / "The Subterraneans" by Jack Kerouac / "In Memoriam Martin Luther King Jr." by June Jordan / "Arte Poetica" by Pablo Neruda / "Love Calls Us To The Things of This World" by Richard Wilbur / "From One Music Lover to Another" by Hermine Pinson / "Bed of Suffering" by Mendi+Keith Obadike / "Put a Little Distance" by Emily XYZ / "Driftwood Feelin'" by Henry Real Bird

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tonight's umüvme poetry playlist:

"Flight to Canada" by Ishmael Reed / "The End of Civilization As We Know It" by Colleen J. McElroy / "Still Falls the Rain" by Edith Sitwell / "Two Whores" by Dennis Cooper / "More Than I ... (Featuring Umar Bin Hassin of The Last Poets) by K.D. Morris / "The Struggle" by Langston Hughes / "Forty-One Bullets Off-Broadway" by Willie Perdomo / "Tupac" by Sonia Sanchez / "Behind the Wall" by Tracy Chapman / "Venus's Flytraps" by Yusef Komunyakaa

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FEATURE POET/LYRICIST:  MS. WISE

Ms. Wise was born in the city of Camden, NJ, and began writing at the age of 11.  She was Captain of the 2008 and 2009 Philadelphia Slam Teams.  Her artistic honors include 1st place in the Rapper's Category of the Tri-State Talent Competition 2003, Philly Grand Slam Champion at The Fuze Grand Slam Championship 2008, and First Female Winner of Last Poet Standing 2008.  She is one half of PPP [PUSSIES, PENS, AND POLITICS], a tongue lashing, fist pumping spoken word romp presented as a collaborative effort with Philadelphia-based poet/spoken word artist Denice Frohman aka Ms. Misconception.

Ms. Wise's first spoken word CD Come Write with Me was released in March of 2007 and was produced by D. Sealy and Just Business Entertainment. Her second CD, The Professor, was released in September of 2008, produced by E-The Poet Emcee of Baltimore, MD. and Philly's own Max Steel.  The Death of Roxanne is her most recent project, released in March of 2009, produced by Maxx Steele and JB Entertainment.  For more info on Ms. Wise, visit www.myspace.com/mslyricalwise.

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tonight on umüvme, we got triflin' tuesday haiku 'bout michael jackson & emmett till + news about a poem that's causin' controversy in the middle east.  we are also playin' excerpts from a recording of last friday's lucky old souls show when your hosts did some poetry & jazz matchmaking @ the moonstone arts center.  this evening's interludes feature the band blue hippopotamus.  

the playlist:

"Listen, Tonight" by Nathalie Handal & Will Soliman / "Vices" by Byron Davis / "Home is Where the Hatred Is" by Gil Scott-Heron / "Telephone Booth #905 1/2" by Pedro Pietri / "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden / "My Letter to Anthony (Critical Resistance)" by Suheir Hammad / "An Ode to the Past" by Tamesha Hawkins / "The Last One" by W.S. Merwin 

next week's show features the incomparable ms. wise, LIVE in studio.

tonight's playlist:  We're featuring tracks from 3 poetry albums tonight:  Hermine Pinson's Changing the Changes, Billy Collins' Live & The United States of Poetry . . .