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Poet/Spoken Word Artist Azure Antoinette

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Partner:: IdeaFestival
Location:: The Kentucky Center
Louisville, KY
Event Date:: 09.22.11
Speaker:: Azure Antoinette
Tags:: poetry; poem

Summary: Preserving our humanity in our fast-paced world of bits, bytes and killer “apps” is one of the themes that Azure Antoinette embraces in her work as a poet, photographer and youth literacy advocate. She explores this topic and shares some of her poetry @ IF.

Presented by Louisville Metro Government.

Much more than a conference, the IdeaFestival is a catalyst for high-speed innovation, product development, and creative endeavors. This series of events attracts leading thinkers and curious minds from across the nation and around the globe.

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Azure Antoinette

Azure Antoinette is a poet/spoken word artist, freelance photographer and youth literacy advocate. At IF Antoinette will discuss the importance of cultivating and maintaining our humanity in our increasingly fast-paced, tech dominated world. A published author, her first book, Bittersweet, was released in May 2009. Her sophomore collection of poetry is due in stores in 2011. It is titled for the sake of BREVITY.

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53 min 32 sec

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01.: Opening Poem

03 min 42 sec

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02.: Becoming a Poet

06 min 57 sec

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03.: What drives your poetry?

02 min 05 sec

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04.: What makes poetry important?

01 min 58 sec

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05.: Knowing Information vs. Understanding Information

02 min 19 sec

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06.: Suggested Themes in Teaching Children

03 min 51 sec

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07.: Where do you find your inspiration?

01 min 33 sec

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08.: How do you discover new work?

02 min 02 sec

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09.: Is Radical Individualism the real problem?

04 min 14 sec

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10.: Will we ever deliberately slow down technological advances?

02 min 19 sec

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11.: Arts programs in the schools?

02 min 14 sec

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12.: Do schools put too much emphasis on math and science?

02 min 09 sec

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13.: How is technology affecting the English Language?

04 min 41 sec

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14.: The Kindle Effect

02 min 34 sec

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15.: Performance poetry vs. Page poetry?

02 min 46 sec

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16.: Similarities between poetry and music?

01 min 11 sec

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17.: What do you deem as a quality piece?

02 min 41 sec

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18.: Closing Poem - "Global Conversation"

04 min 15 sec

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Azure Antoinette Shares a Poem at the IdeaFestival

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Azure Antoinette shares a poem during the 2011 Idea Festival hosted in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

poetry: Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meaning, sound, and rhythm. It may be distinguished from prose by its compression, frequent use of conventions of metre and rhyme, use of the line as a formal unit, heightened vocabulary, and freedom of syntax. Its emotional content is expressed through a variety of techniques, from direct description to symbolism, including the use of metaphor and simile. See also prose poem; prosody.; poetry on britannica.com