Open Email to KCET Web Stories
Again, let me extend my appreciation for considering kintespace.com for KCET Online Web Stories. The following incomplete list covers the relevant people and works that should pique your interest:
Kamau Daáood is the generative force behind the ‘South-of-Wilshire’ poetry scene of my early twenties back in the 1990s. He is the guy to talk to for a broad historical perspective. He was last covered (indirectly) here in the kinté space in February of 2005.
Michael Datcher is the “spiritual son” of Kamau Daáood, he was the long time host of Open Mic’ Poetry at The World Stage. Mr. Datcher appeared on KCET Life & Times in 2001. He is now a visiting professor at LMU:
Datcher, Michael G.
English
Visiting Professor
University Hall 3854
Email: mdatcher@lmu.edu
Phone: (310) 338-3715
Fumilayo Bankole is the “spiritual sister” of Michael Datcher. She is featured here in “Zoom Zooms n Wham Whams” at kintespace.com. She has also been very active in the Los Angeles poetry scene.
Jerry Quickly of KPFK fame and every poet in “Hip Hop Poetry Jam” can provide the North-of-Wilshire perspective for the L.A. poetry scene… My “distorted” view of this world is characterized by the Blog post “Ye Olde rasx() Trying to Run the Streets Again.”
Top Poets by raw numbers here at kintespace.com: Devin Davis (a.k.a. townee) and Olga Angelina Garcia
Since you have a specific interest in spoken word audio, some memorable streaming audio moments are “Jaha Zainabu: Journey” and “Amiri Baraka: Somebody Blew Up America.”
My favorite places to read poetry in Los Angeles have been The World Stage in Leimert Park, Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica (gone) and Beyond Baroque in Venice, California.