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Poet, educator, performer and more Naila Keleta Mae âe" listen and learn

| April 26, 2007

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Spoken-word artist, writer and professor emeritus of No-Knowledge College, Naila Keleta Mae is a woman to watch. Or, rather, to listen to. For national poetry month, Mae has squared off against her peers at the 2007 CBC Poetry Face Off. She will be featured in the upcoming Mayworks Festival in Toronto. Here, Mae discusses her art, activism and perspectives on spoken word, dub poetry and education, and reads some of her work.

PART 1 Listen now.

PART 2 Listen now.

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