4 february 1999  Sarah JonesThe biography: "Sarah Jones is a poet, "spoken word" performer, actor and playwright. She attended Bryn Mawr College, then returned home to NYC where she stepped right into the 1997 Nuyorican Poets Café's Grand Poetry Slam Championship. She is a 1998 Van Lier literary fellow whose credits also include a contribution to The Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1 HipHop CD; work with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and musician Paul Simon on the Capeman writing team; and performances at such venues as Lincoln Center, the Public Theater and the National Black Theater. Currently Sarah is touring nationally and internationally performing her one woman show Surface Transit. She misses her sister Naomi with all her heart, and woks hard at staving off the madness of New York." Whatever. She is impressive with here poems and how she brings it. Check here out when you have a chance. Meanwhile we keep our eyes and ears open to find out were she is. And take the chance for an interview when we have her located. Meanwhile here is a dope poem of here: And the colored girls go... tonite we are not back up singers booties bumpin' pelvises pumpin' invisible vitamins into the crowd tonite we do not do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do nothin' behind Lou Reed, Tom Jones or Madonna for that matter tonite we ain't no dark backdrop for wishful blond ambition staking haute couture stilettos through the hip, romantic ghettos tonite we will not tone it down in sync to keep from upstaging tonite we fires raging six feet tall and God couldn't put us out if she wanted to we her daughters out in front in pulpits on porch swings in smoky bedroom mirrors we wailing at the night through stucco walls tonite we ain't gon' back up for nobody or no thing we wrestled these words from graves and weed gardens fashioned this music from chipped dishes, trade beads, cigarette butts tonite we gon' sing our own prayers soak our feet in' em downstage and from the wings bigger and badder than suicide  |