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diversions
Poet's Lounge
brings funk to CSULB
By Ayako Ando
On-line Forty-Niner
Once again, Cal
State Long Beach students will have an opportunity to come
together with their originally written poems to share with
others.
The University Student Union's Program Council will throw
their monthly two-hour Poet's Lounge, hosted by Makell Murphy,
today at 8 p.m. at the Soroptomist House.
"It is a great event and a relevant opportunity for those
people to express and share their feelings," said Yassi
Amini, a program assistant for the board.
Amini said the USU's programming board has been offering this
kind of poetic event once a month for more than four years.
The first half of the event is an open mic session. Everyone
is welcome to read. There will be a list being passed around
at the beginning. In years past, the second half was intended
for a freestyle session.
This semester, the Poet's Lounge has a new format in which
special guest performers have been invited to showcase their
talents during the last half. The Los Angeles Slam Team will
perform tonight for CSULB.
The jazz band "Poetic Funk" will be back once again
to accompany the readers. Some readers also ask the band to
play specific music to correlate with their poems.
"There are usually around 75 to 100 people who come to
see the event," said Robinson. "Most of them are
CSULB students, but some are graduated students and others
are people living close to the campus."
Anyone interested can be a part of the creative evening, but
usually only 15 to 30 people out of them will go up to the
stage and read, Robinson said.
"All the participants have unique and creative ways of
writing and reading poems, Robinson said. "It is good
to see the ability of our people to make their free style
works."
Some people read dramatic, long poems, while others read short,
funny ones.
Some people express themselves by way of Haiku - the Japanese
lyric verse that has three unrhymed lines, and can be humorous,
emotional or cool in its content.
The USU Program Council's next event is "Chinese Acrobats,"
who will be performing at noon Thursday in the Southwest Terrace
and Friday at 8 p.m. in the USU Small Auditorium. Tickets
for this event are also free for staff and students.
For more information about Program Council events, call (562)
985-8480.
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