Harlem – Check the Rhyme

Saturday 19… With 75°F… A beautiful Day in NY. I went to Harlem, in Hue-man café and bookstore on Frederick Douglass Blvd. It was a spoken word event. 5 poets read their poems, some sang, some rap. We were a few people. But it was very nice, very powerful. Differents women, blacks, white, Latino… From ATL, Bronx, Queens… It was intense.

My first Spoken word and reading event. And not my last. I really loved Ella Turrene, a strong haitian woman, she sang, she is a very good spoken word woman too. She read two poems about Haiti and Pierre-Dominique Toussaint (if you want know a little more about this country), she made me feel weird, it was very deep. And her last poem was about men, and how a woman today is independant, and how we need true man, not man telling ” i will take care about you ” ( as if we need a man to take care about us ) and at least, it’s us who take about them… A very funny piece !
The other woman who really impress me was a poet from ATL, Letitia Ford. More sad poems. But i really love it. She is very sensitive and strong in the same time. And she touched me a lot with this sensibility.