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“In the wind we learn  …  that die hards do not die

They only echo throughout the universe  …  as light”

Los Angeles Poet: Kamau Daáood

Wednesday February 24th

Rondeau Records and Move Or Die Productions

Celebrate the release of their newest book

”HANG MAN”

by

Myron Michael with James Cagney

also

Avotcja & Eugene Warren

(of Avotcja & Modúpue)

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24th

@

THE GRAND LAKE COFFEE HOUSE

440 Grand Avenue @ Bellevue

(right across the street from Lake Merritt)

Oakland, CA 94610

7PM TO 9PM        Free Admission

(but donations gratefully accepted)

(510)922-1507  www.myronmichael.com

a Cave Canem Scholarship benefit fund event

“El halcon en el cielo no se da cuenta que los de abajo lo velan.”

(The hawk in the sky does not realize that those below are watching him)

Sunday February 28th

join us the 2nd & 4th Sunday of every Month

THE MUSIC OF THE WORD

(LA PALABRA MUSICAL)

still in English, Spanish, Spanglish y Lo Que Sea

3:30 – 5:30PM     No Cover

hosted by Avotcja

(Donations for flyers accepted

& don’t forget to bring your Congas,

Guiros, Maracas, Panderetas etc.

Always the word festival to remember!

@

REBECCA’s BOOKS

(specializing in Ethnic Poetry)

3268 Adeline Street

wheel chair accessible

(½ block North of Alcatraz & 2 short blocks South of Ashby BART)

Berkeley, CA               (510)852-4768

Sunday February 28th

ODILIA GALVAN RODRIGUEZ (Curandera de Palabras)

JAVIER ReYES (Poet/Hip Hop Theater)

&

PAUL FLORES (big, energetic, flavor)

& you & you & you

¡Vengan todos &

tell everyone to tell everyone!

rebeccasbooks [at] yahoo [dot] com or www.Avotcja.com

LaVerdadMusical [at] yahoo [dot] com

¡Dime con quien te juntas, y te diré quien eres!

(Tell who you hang out with & I’ll tell you who you are!)

Saturday March 6th

CELEBRATING INTERNAT’L WOMEN’S DAY

(part of the Rhymes & Rhythms Series)

hosted by

NANCY HOM & AVOTCJA

with

GENNY LIM, MYRNA ZIALCITA, NANCY HOM,

MEKLIT HADERO, NELLIE WONG, TUREEDA MIKELL, MAMACOATL, ARLENE BIALA,

AVOTCJA & PIREENI SUNDARALINGAM

SATURDAY MARCH 6th

@

THE I HOTEL MANILATOWN CENTER

868 Kearny Street @ Jackson

San Francisco, CA 94108

(doors open @ 1:30PM)

2PM – 5PM   $5 to $10 Sliding Scale

(no one turned away for lack of Funds)

(415)399-9580 or www.Manilatown.org

(a benefit for the Manilatown Heritage Foundation, a

Non-profit organization dedicated to preserving & fostering

the rich cultural and artistic traditions of San Francisco’s

Filipino American community).

www.Avotcja.com

Cara, Sal & Avotcja @ Bird & Beckett on Sunday, January 03, 2010

Come check a Maestro, & support an extra special cause.

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A scientist says that

Crows can recognize

Human faces

After

He released those

He’d tested in labs

They’d harass him

Whenever he took

A walk

I guess that’s why crows

Don’t talk to

Me any more

Strolling along the path

Of the Emeryville Marina

We used

To be good buddies

They’d do three caws

And I would do three

And then they

Would do four caws and

I’d respond with four

But now they’re silent

I must have said the

Wrong thing

I guess they’re on to me

I guess they’re saying among

Themselves

There goes that fellow

Who thinks he’s one of

Us

I never got as close to

A crow as Marlyse

Her mother bought

Gustav for five Swiss francs

He used to follow her

To school,

And would perch on a

Tree outside her

Classroom

He’d stand on her

Shoulder when she

Went horseback riding

Her step father

And brothers hated Gustav

When he flew into their

Bedroom window, the

Brothers smothered him with

Linen and laughed as he

Struggled

After that, the brothers

Were objects of his furious

Pecking

He’d tear out their hair

He crow-sacked the kitchen

Broke dishes

Cover himself with

Flour

When Marlyse returned from

Catholic school

She found that the step father

Had shot the crow

She never forgave him

© Ishmael Reed, July 10, 2009

Ishmael Reed has been nominated for a National Book Award in poetry, and in 2007 received the Gold Medal for Poetry from the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco for his “New and Collected Poetry, 1964-2006.” He is also a songwriter and in 2008, received an award for Blues song writer of the year from the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame. In addition to reading from his poetry, he will show Mary Wilson of The Supremes performing a song of his and Taj Mahal singing one of his songs from a CD that will be released in November. A poem written in Seattle in 1969, “Beware: Do Not Read This Poem,” has been cited by the Gale Research Company as “one of the approximately 20 poems that teachers and librarians have identified as the most frequently studied in literature courses.”

Yicks – a GIANT RAT in our garden!!

Before I could blink (and take an other picture) the creature rapidly ran up the cat ladder which leads onto our balcony. I followed the critter upstairs (inside the house using the stairs, not the cat ladder) and I took a few more photos with my cell phone of this “strange thingy” invading our property:

If you still dare now to visit us during the time of July 1st to July 18th to hang out a bit with friends please let us know what days would be convenient for you – we promise not to serve you cat food!

Eating Opossum

Marlyse & Renée

Tennessee Maria Reed (in her home in Oakland) and me checking the web page layout in Google Chrome.

Photo taken by Renée Asha Petronilla Hansemann on Friday, June 12th 2009.

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