A Day of Reflection, Pride and Spoken Poetry with Denice Frohman

In memory of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Oct. 11 is celebrated annually as National Coming Out Day. The Santa Monica College Pride Center celebrated by inviting Puerto Rican and lesbian poet Denice Frohman for an afternoon of spoken word poetry.

CultureEe Lin TsenOctober 12, 2022Ee Lin Tsen, LGBTQ+, poetry, spoken word, National Coming Out Day, SMC Pride Center, SMC GSA, Denise FrohmanComment

Da Poetry Lounge: A Dinner Table of Artists

“We start off every week by asking: ‘Brutha Gimel, what did you do this weekend?’” It’s a loaded question that Shihan Van Clief, the host and co- founder of Da Poetry Lounge, asks in front of an audience of more than 250 people. Some are like family, loyal artists and listeners who have been attending for more than a decade. Others are essentially strangers, first-timers -- like voyagers in a foreign land.

Culture, Recent Stories, Art, EntertainmentChelsey SanchezMarch 28, 2017artists, da poetry lounge, dante basco, hollywood, Los Angeles, poetry, shihan, spoken word, jazz shademan, chelsey sanchezComment