Monday, March 11, 2019

This Saturday, March 16: Brockton Library Poetry Series

Information courtesy of Tim Reed.


  Brockton Library Poetry Series
Everyone Has a Voice
Saturday, March 16th
1:00–3:00 Driscoll Art Gallery
Featuring
Marlon Carey
Tasha Jay
With Open Mic
Featuring You


Marlon Carey is a Poet (published chapbooks:  Giraffe Theory (2000), Prolegomenon (2003) and Lazarus (2007) who has been a member of the Providence Poetry Slam, the Boston Poetry Slam and Boston Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam Teams. He is also a proud member of the Providence RI-based poetry troupe, Brother’s Keeper. Marlon is also an Educator (teaching Poetry, Hip Hop and Creative Writing in the New England Area and around the country), Actor (The Sunset Limited, Topdog/Underdog, Othello, When Mahalia Sings, Take Me Out, A Few Good Men), Communicator (producer and radio DJ on “Off Tha Top”,  www.BSRlive.com) and Entertainer  (released EPs: There Is No Plan, Be. and Plan M: the un-Mixtape, End of The World Mixtape 2012: OCCUPY Your Mind.)  Carey earned his BFA degree in Creative Writing at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, NC, and is proud to be a Rhode Island Poet, with nuff respect to his Jamaican immigrant roots. PEACE

Tahisha Joseph poet name Tasha Jay, Massasoit Community College is a poet who didn't always know there was a gift of writing in her. Grew up surrounded by hurt and pain and used the emotions channeled by life and wrote about it.

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