Monday, August 1, 2011

Something I Said - Chris Shillock Profiled

Something I Said - Chris Shillock
Dwight Hobbes - Pulse of the Twin Cities archives
Ain't many beatnik poets left. Chris Shillock is one. As in true, old-school spoken word. Before even The Last Poets there was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and the rest of that bunch from the early 1960s. They pioneered the spoken-word part of avant-garde theater, preceding the likes of Amiri Baraka (when he was LeRoi Jones), Sonja Sanchez, Miguel Pinero and such contemporary

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