One good thing about Music: when it hits you, you feel no pain | STREET ART UTOPIA

Street Artist SUNRA

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Cesar Chavez’s family slams Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign – Los Angeles Times

“When we saw Bobby Kennedy begin to use images of my father, and then when we heard about this event in L.A., it really prompted us to stand up and to make sure that people understood that the Chavez family does not support his campaign,” Paul Chavez, Fernando’s brother, told The Times.

“We’ve never seen anybody go as far as using that image for political gain,” Andres Chavez, Paul’s son, said of Kennedy’s campaign event invitation.

Source: Cesar Chavez’s family slams Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign – Los Angeles Times

My Poetry Month Poem + Poems by Jean Colonomos + Podcast – Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Today’s guest, Jean Colonomos, is a poet.  She used to dance with The Martha Graham Dance Company in NYC in the 1960s. On the subject of Graham, according to Wikipedia, Graham’s mark on modern dance is equal to how Pablo Picasso changed our concept of modern art, on par with Stravinsky’s influence on music, and akin to Frank Lloyd Wright’s impact on architecture.

Pardon as I digress for a moment from Jean again. Here’s a video with the famed Martha Graham. She’s with another icon whose accomplishments also continue to rock the world long after her death.  Author/disability rights activist Helen Keller lost her eyesight and hearing at 19 months old…

 

 

Back to Jean, when Jean left dance, she became a dance journalist, poet (her poems run in journals such as poem.com), and most recently published her autobiographical Living the Dream.

This interview with Jean was produced by the Ventura County Poetry Project…

 

 

 

Source: My Poetry Month Poem + Poems by Jean Colonomos + Podcast – Happiness Between Tails by da-AL