tonight’s event at busboys and poets with the national gallery of art was much fun. we recreated the electric headlines of andy warhol’s day with dc artists mixing together topical subjects of today like troy davis and the death penalty, palestine and dc statehood, and corporate greed and the occupy movement. i performed alongside christylez bacon, huda asfour, head roc, bruce lebovitz, gowri koneswaran, and more for a packed house at the downtown busboys and poets.
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Born in Washington, DC and raised in Crofton, Maryland, Jonathan B. Tucker (JBT) is a writer, performer, educator, DJ, and dreamer passionate about poetry, youth empowerment, racial and social justice, and finding purpose through service to others. He has received numerous awards and artist fellowships, and has performed and taught at schools, libraries, detention centers, museums, and conferences around the world. His poems have appeared in Howard University’s Amistad Journal alongside the late Amiri Baraka (Howard University, 2011), in Etan Thomas’s anthology Voices of the Future (Haymarket Books, 2012), in two self-published chapbooks (jonathan b. tucker, 2010; and i got the matches, 2012), and on the stages of the Kennedy Center and the South African State Theatre. JBT represented DC at the National Poetry Slam in 2009 and 2010, and has helped coordinate and coach the DC Youth Slam Team with Split This Rock since 2011.
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