3rd Annual DC Poetry Festival

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GENESIS POETS MUSIC, Inc. ANNOUNCES 3rd ANNUAL DC POETRY FESTIVAL AT THE CARTER BARRON AMPITHETARE


Washington, DC - (July 1, 2007) - Genesis Poets Music, Inc., announced that the 3rd Annual DC Poetry Festival will be held at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre, in Washington, DC - Friday August 24, 2007 at 7:30 PM. The Carter Barron Amphitheater is located in Rock Creek Park at 16th and Colorado Avenue, NW Washington, DC and is a part of the National Park Service.

Charlotte Fox, President of Genesis Poets Music, Inc. said, “This year our show is a “DC” Community effort. We are working with DC SCORES and The American Poetry Museum. The DC community will enjoy poets who are “home grown” some are “Def Poets” from the HBO show, while others are artist from the “U” Street Art Scene. This Art Scene is home to some of Washington’s hottest artists and is known as “Black Broadway” from the days of Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington: Genesis Poets Music, Inc. is a local Independent Record Label, born out of the “art” experience on “U” Street.

The feature Poets this year will be DC’s own POEM-CEES. Since 1998, POEM-CEES have combined rhyme, prose and community activism to emerge at the cutting edge of the vibrant Washington, DC Arts Movement. Naturalaw-dp & Black Picasso’s talents were forged in “Spoken Word.” Their debut cd “I.O.U. Street,” pays homage to the soul of DC’s “U” Street Art Scene.

One of our non-profit partners again this year is DC SCORES a local non-profit organization. For the past 12 years, DC SCORES has supported over 3000 of the District’s elementary students located in over 22 under-resourced Washington, D.C. public and charter schools by teaching the fundamentals of teamwork, leadership and commitment.
This year our new partner, the American Poetry Museum (APM) a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating this nation’s diverse poetic traditions using written and spoken poetry as an educative tool.
The Festival is a “FREE” event for the community, with music by Steven B and Friends a local jazz band that plays in the Washington METRO area.
Some of the artist performing will be…. 13 of Nazareth, Eddie Oliver, Charneice Fox, Brother Earl, Leroy Stringer, Jr., 2 Deep The Poetess, Kenny, “The Messenger”, CeLillianne Green, Messiah Ramkissoon, Rodzilla, Carolyn Johnson, Youth Poets from DC SCORES, our host will be Beny Blaq. For more information visit. www.genesispoets.com www.dcscores.org www.americanpoetrymusuem.org
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Charlotte Fox

President

Genesis Poets Music, Inc.

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