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DESCRIPTION:Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop—and its influence became 
 inextricable from her personal interactions. Form blends with content in 
 "Dated Emcees" as she examines her love life through the lens of 
 hip-hop’s best known orators, characters, archetypes and songs, creating 
 a new and inventive narrative about the music that shaped the craggy heart 
 of a young woman poet, just as it changed the global landscape of pop. 
 Tonight she will perform with her musician brother Chukwudi.\n\n\n“This 
 is an absolute powerhouse of a book…There’s enough beauty and 
 heartbreak and melancholy and humor and sorrow in here for three 
 collections, or two lifetimes. [Chinaka Hodge] deserves a wide audience, an 
 attentive audience, an audience that wants to be astounded.” — Dave 
 Eggers\n\n\n“This is poetry that, in its infinite power and intimate 
 grace, will still turn in your mind long after the music is over.” 
 —Jeff Chang\n\n\n“Chinaka Hodge is hands down, unequivocally, my 
 favorite writer of words. All day. Every day. She writes with the grace of 
 a dancer, the bars of a rapper, the heart of your best friend, and all of 
 the swag and soul of Oakland…  These are poems to read every day. To make 
 mantras from.\nThey are the best poems you’ve ever read.\n                
   — Daveed Diggs, actor/rapper, star of Hamilton on Broadway\n\n“Dated 
 Emcees" is outlined in the matter of black life, streamlined through the 
 filter of black womb…a smoke-filled lung in a sweat-filled club of safety 
 and danger, and the bass of black moon…”\n      —Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 
 arts activist, spoken word artist, US Artists Rockefeller Fellow\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/24/18796798.php
SUMMARY:Oakland political poet Chinaka Hodge speaks and performs
LOCATION:Oakland Impact Hub, 2323 Broadway, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/24/18796798.php
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