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Day Date Event Time Address City Cost
Fri. Feb. 10 Messiah & Friends 7PM Adinkra Cultural Arts Studio
3804 34th Street
Mount Rainier, MD    
Sat. Feb. 11 Jazz Poetry Cafe 8PM Emoni's Dessert Bar Cafe
17926 Main Street
Dumfries, VA FMI: (703) 441-3244
Sun. Feb. 12 Columbia St. West 6PM 135 W. Columbia Street Fort Wayne, IN    
Wed. Feb. 15 Roselle center for the Arts University of Delaware 4:30PM Gore Recital Hall Newark, DE    
Fri. Feb. 17 Black Enterprise - Women of Power Summit
"Be Heard Poetry Jam"
7PM The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, FL Tickets For More Info
Tues. Feb. 21 Spirits & Lyrics 8PM City Tavern
9405 Main Street
Manassas, VA   FMI: (703) 335-2889
Thurs. Feb. 23 Black On Black Rhyme 8:30PM Amen Ra's Tallahassee, FL   FMI: (850) 681-2023
Fri. March 2 NBG Presents Friday Night Poetry Explosion 8PM Eisenhower Hotel
2634 Emmitsburg Road
Gettysburg, PA   For More Info
Fri. March 16 Utatu Collective's Queen's Night Out 8PM Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL    
Thurs. April 26 Neo Soul Lounge 9PM 11th Street Station
1101 E. 5th Street
Austin, TX    
Sat. April 28 New Jersey Performing Arts Center 7PM New Jersey Performing Arts Center
1 Center Street
Newark, NJ   For More Info
Wed. May 2 The Fly Poet 7PM   Los Angeles, CA $15 For More Info
Fri. May 4 Free 2 Spit 7PM The New Haven Peoples Center
37 Howe Street
New Haven, CT    
Fri. July 27 Legacy Books & Cafe 8PM Legacy Books & Cafe
5249 Delmar Blvd.
St. Louis, MO FMI: (341) 361-2182
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"You have so, so much inspired me with your Spoken Word" said the legendary Stevie Wonder, while interviewing Taalam Acey, during Wonder’s own birthday celebration in May 2008. Taalam, a child of the Newark Rebellion, was raised by a single mother who was a member of the famed writer and activist Amiri Baraka’s community organization.

 

 

Taalam Acey has published a novel, a comprehensive collection of poems, an award winning memoir and 11 Spoken Word CDs. He has been a full time traveling poet since 1999. Tens of thousands of people own his work and hundreds of thousands have watched him live or via television and the internet. Acey performs regularly in more than 50 cities in the US and abroad. On average, he is on a plane once every 3.5 days. That's 100 flights per year to promote Spoken Word.

 

Taalam's work has been featured on BET, TV One and in Essence Magazine. Acey was the first person ever selected as "the 1 thing you need to know about" on BET's countdown show, "The 5ive." Acey sat on the Congressional Black Caucus' 2007 & 2008 "Young Gifted and Black" panels. He has been a frequent guest at dozens of colleges and Universities and has lectured on contemporary Spoken Word at the prestigious Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Acey has twice been featured at the Essence Music Festival. He's been quoted in several newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Weekly and the New Jersey Star Ledger. In addition, Acey's work has been associated with films that have garnered an Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

 

Taalam is also an accomplished slam poet who has won slams throughout the United States as well as in Germany and England. He was featured in an acclaimed Radio-One London documentary on slam and Marc Smith, the founder of slam poetry, used Acey's work as an example of slam poetry in his definitive book.

 

 

 

 

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