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86. Tai Amri Poetics: Beautiful Ashe

Published: July 20, 2022, 8 a.m.

Tai Amri:
\n"I started Allies in Action at Naropa while I was there as a student, and also was the editor of Tendril, which was a journal on diversity. And that really came out of my feelings of like, man it\u2019s really hard being black in Boulder, and being black at Naropa was also very difficult. And \u2014 and I was getting triggered all the time, and micro-aggressions, which I didn\u2019t have language for at the time - I just like, I\u2019m not gonna be able to graduate from here if I don\u2019t do something to try to change it. And Allies in Action was really like - how do we address unaddressed privilege and oppression in the school environment? And I feel like B.L.A.C.K Lawrence tries to do a lot of that, as well as how do we create space for black creators in a place where there\u2019s not a lot of us.\u201d

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Beautiful Ashe: Memoirs of A Sweet Black Boy and Other Poems
\nBeautiful Ashe: Memoirs of A Sweet Black Boy Tai Amri

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In This Episode:
\n-Influence of Music in Writing
\n-Black Studies & Black Aesthetics
\n-Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
\n-Black Literature & Arts Collective of Kansas
\n-Tai Amri Original Spoken Poetry
\n-Elegba - Trickster God, African Deity
\n-Obatala - African Deity of Peace & Creativity
\n-Pantheon of Orishas
\n-Influential Teachers of Color at Naropa
\n -Soltahr Tiv-Amanda
\n Soltahr.com
\n -Malaika Pettigrew
\n Remembering Malaika

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Tai\u2019s Favorite Jazz Musician:
\nThis Is Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers on Spotify

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http://artblakey.com/

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More Influence:

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Tito Puente
\nThis Is Tito Puente on Spotify

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Bob Marley
\nLegend - The Best of Bob Marley and The Wailers on Spotify

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Poetic Influence:
\nhttps://soniasanchez.net/
\nSonia Sanchez