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Spoken Word Sundays: Ngoma Hill and Joe Roarty

  • The Parkside Lounge 317 East Houston Street New York (map)

Spoken Word Sundays is back at New York City’s Parkside Lounge!

** EVERYONE MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION TO ENTER THE VENUE.


As you know, things change fast. Please keep checking our website and Facebook page for updates. If we can’t be at the Parkside at any time, we will return to Zoom.


Featuring Ngoma Hill and Joe Roarty

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, Artivist, and paradigm shifter, who for over 50 years has used culture as a tool to raise socio-political and spiritual consciousness through work that encourages critical thought. A former member of Amiri Baraka's "The Spirit House Movers and Players" and the contemporary freedom song duo "Serious Bizness", Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises contradictions and searches for a solution to a just and peaceful world.

Ngoma was the Prop Slam Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Competition in Middletown, CT and has been published in African Voices Magazine, Long Shot Anthology, The Underwood Review, Signifyin' Harlem Review, Bum Rush the Page/Def Poetry Jam Anthology, Poems on the Road to Peace (Volumes 1,2, and 3), Yale Press, Let Loose On the World-Amiri Baraka at 75.,
The Understanding Between Foxes and Light and Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea (great weather for MEDIA), and New Rain/Blind Beggar Press 35th Anniversary Issue. He was featured in the P.B.S spoken-word documentary The Apropoets with Allen Ginsburg

Ngoma was selected as the Beat Poet Laureate of New York for 2021 by The National Beat Poetry Poetry Foundation. His newest book release I Didn't Come Here to Tap Dance (A Poetic Memoir) is a collection of poems spanning half a century inspired by a commitment to the Most High to create art to raise socio-political and spiritual consciousness and to encourage critical thought.

 

joe roarty born in cinncinnati oh-grew up in pittsburgh pa-livd in cleveland,boston,chicago for 30 years where I learned poetry from my peers-now liv in philadelphia-have 2 chapbooks”