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In May 2018, I had the great fortune to play original songs in
Star Blue on the Scene's singer-songwriter showcase, "Women Who Run With the Music", featuring super talented Michael Fortunato on clarinet, flute and saxophone, along with the wonderful Brittany Aquamarine with Yareen Avni, Clementine Darling and Rebecca Edwards. Star Blue, a stellar singer songwriter in her own right, emcee'd, and Marke Blue generously provided sound. Video courtesy of Star Blue
Author, playwright, composer and translator extraordinaire John Farndon created The Seed Room to bring together top class musicians, poets, spoken word artists and thinkers, with contributions both in the Cervantes Theatre in London, U.K. and live-streamed from across the globe. My brilliant sister Lola Perrin, an internationally recognized composer and founder of Climate Keys, and I collaborated to present an original work in spoken word and music in an evening loosely themed around friendship and community.
Music: Canyon Dusk (Lola Perrin) Words: Broken (Margo Perin) |
To Love a ...
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Girls in the juvenile jail where I was teaching creative writing wrote these poems inspired by "To Love a Latina" by Michelle Ibarra. The girls were asked to write poems on "To Love a ..." based on how they identified themselves. We all wrote together under the harsh fluorescent lights of the jail classroom and then read them aloud to each other. With the girls' permission, I have brought the poems to schools and prisons to inspire other young poets to write about themselves. They were also read aloud, along with my poem, at various readings. This reading took place at Travellers, Refugees, Outsiders on January 14, 2018 in London, UK. Hosted by author, playwright, poet and songwriter John Farndon, the event also featured live streams from the Octagon poets in Strasbourg, piano virtuoso and activist Warren Wills from Australia, and many varied and talented individuals from France, Germany, Russia, Japan, UK and USA.
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Interview with Frederick Meyer on Writing about Yourself and People You Know