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What We Deserve

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Released: Jul 8, 2008

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What We Deserve
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Genre: A'cappella / Comedy / Lyrical
Location Seattle,San Francisco, LA, Boulder, New Orleans, D, US
Profile Views: 30827
Last Login: 4/12/2010
Member Since 5/21/2008
Website saltlines.com
Record Label Unsigned
Bio
Coming Spring 2010: Salt Lines Spoken Word Collaborative Andrea Gibson (Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion), Denise Jolly (Seattle Poetry Slam), Sonya Renee (Individual National Poetry Slam Champion), and Tara Hardy (Bent Writing Institute) will hit the road to perform spoken word across the United States and Canada. These women represent some of the strongest and most respected talent coming out of the international Poetry Slam circuit. They and their work have been featured on HBO, CNN, MTV, BET, Oxygen, and UK Travel Networks, alongside the likes of Hillary Clinton, Ani Difranco, Gloria Steinem, Lady Miss Kier of Dee Lite, Cut Chemist, Amy Goodman, Dorothy Allison, Kate Bornstein, Michelle Tea, Sini Anderson, Ivan Coyote, and Sister Spit. Sonya, Tara, Andrea and Denise are performers, educators, facilitators, developers, and believers in the human ability to create change by honoring and expressing personal, cultural, and social history. This verbal quartet will storm, sing, slam, and sling salt into the eye of all that has ever silenced voices meant to be heard. Their celebration is one of being basic to the earth as salt. Necessary, life allowing, wound stinging, and let’s face it, tasty. A salt line is a ring left on a hat or heart or sleeve inspired by exertion or labor. So, don’t be surprised if they inspire you to work up your own sweat, because these four elemental poets will work stages into assembly lines of release, revolt, and redemption. These women do not provide a clean slate they do however provide a dirty one worn proudly. When booking Salt Lines make sure and inquire about writing, performance and workshops facilitated by the performers in your schools classroom!!!
Members
Tara Hardy, Sonya Renee, Andrea Gibson, Denise Jolly
Influences
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. HBO Def Poet Andrés Gómez has called Gibson both deeply haunting and profoundly inspiring. “Her words cut so sharply and completely they cannot be shaken. To call her one of the best poets would be a gross understatement.” .. .. .. .. .. .. .. “Sonya does naturally what I strive to do as a performance artist. She can make you lose yourself in her presence & by the time you recover, you're knee deep in her rich language, up to your neck in her beauty and way in over your head with emotion.”- Black Picasso of the Poemcees, 2x Def Poetry Jam Performer .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "I've seen splinters fall from my skin, a snake shedding its own crucifixion, grand pianos rolling in from the rust flood gates, and Tara Hardy. They all gave me the same locomotive notion, that I am released now. Tara Hardy is one of my spoken word heroes. " -Buddy Wakefield .. .. .. .. .. .. .. “Denise does not try to preach to us, impress us or command us. Her work is infinitely more valuable because it offers us that rarest of sustaining forces: honesty. Unlike so many poets, she does not imply that she is fearless – only that she is moving, courageously, against those fears. That is how she inspires us to do the same in our own lives.” Ryler Dustin, Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist
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.. .. .. .. .. .. .. “These women are four of the most dynamic writers and performers to come out of a genre with many outstanding writers and performers, for a long time. I'm talking, of course, about the National Poetry Slam and related events. But Andrea, Sonya, Tara and Denise transcend the genre as well by being completely original and unique voices.” Blair