Bronzeville Beat: 2/2 We Real Cool
Daljit Nagra chooses Bronzeville Beat examining Chicago's powerful poetic tradition for a new generation. From 2020.
Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's poetry archive and chooses Bronzeville Beat featuring poets of Chicago.
Through poetry slams like Louder Than A Bomb, Chicago's powerful poetic tradition is being reforged by the young, bringing their diverse experience & new voices to light for the first time.
They are connected to Black Chicago's literary mother, Gwendolyn Brooks, both by their exposure to new ways of celebrating poetry at school & the community of competition & comradeship.
2020 was to mark the 20th anniversary of Louder than a Bomb, the world's biggest poetry slam but Covid 19 brought it to a halt. Maria Margaronis gathers up a community of poets online to liberate their words now on hold.
Producer: Mark Burman
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2020.
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