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You are welcome to bring your own work and sign up to read with the Ellyn’s band! Show starts at 7:30!

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December 14 at 7:45pm Danny Moynahan host a night of music and revelry at the Talking Stick on Lincoln Blvd. in Venice. Many talented musicians will be in attendance, Hen House’s own Baba Alade among them. So head out for a night of FUN, FESTIVE and FREE live music!

By Rose Albano-Risso

City Editor

Nov. 29, 2010

The name Michael C. Ford will probably ring a bell to not just a few Manteca Unified School District students who were in elementary and high school during the mid-to-late 1980s. Those were the years when the award-winning spoken-word artist did stints as a poet-in-residence at Brock Elliott School, Manteca High and other campuses in the district.

Chances are, some of the students he taught probably still have in their possession today copies of an anthology of the youthful verses they penned in the classroom which was “published” at the end of their poetry lessons with the Grammy/Pulitzer Prize poet.

Ford was actually the resident poet for San Joaquin County area schools as well as language arts consultant for the California Poets-in-the-Schools program at the time, so he touched the lives of hundreds more would-be young poets than just those he mentored in the Manteca Unified School District. (more…)

Poetry Rodeo starts at 7:30 TONIGHT!

*Remember you are welcome to bring your own work and sign up to read with the Ellyn’s band!

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Thanks all who came out and many thanks to Beyond Baroque for hosting such a wonderful night!

Baba Alade performed songs off his album Unified and One

Ellyn Maybe introduced us to a Poetry Rodeo. Many thanks to the incredible band and the rest of the poets!

Video by: Jacob Mendel

***Don’t forget! Hen House is curating an awesome lineup of poets and musicians this Friday at Beyond Baroque 7:30pm! We will have wine and samosas from Samosa House! The night will feature collaborations, improvisations and new material from Michael C Ford, Rich Ferguson, Baba Alade, Yvonne del la Vega, Ellyn Maybe, Jaimes Palacio, Eve Brandstein and Rex Weiner as well as many more special guests.

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Video by: Nisey Jay and Riccardo Spinotti