After a short break, the evening’s headliner, Iyeoka Okoawo, stepped up to blow the audience away with her unique combination of musical performance and poetry. Her opening was this:
Accompanied by the Jeff Robinson Trio, Iyeoka’s poems, sometimes shocking and always moving, wove the evening together, integrating the strands of hope and despair and possibility that had been expressed throughout the evening.
It was made abundantly clear this night how the arts inspire us to connect more deeply with our potential to create change.
-Review from the Berkana Institute
at Rhyming for a Reason fall 2006
An ancient Chinese proverb states: May you be granted everything you want, except this one. And may this one take you all your lifelong to achieve. May this be the one thing that you rise with in the morning, that you dream of at night, that one thing that may give your life meaning.
Accompanied by the Jeff Robinson Trio, Iyeoka’s poems, sometimes shocking and always moving, wove the evening together, integrating the strands of hope and despair and possibility that had been expressed throughout the evening.
It was made abundantly clear this night how the arts inspire us to connect more deeply with our potential to create change.
-Review from the Berkana Institute
at Rhyming for a Reason fall 2006
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