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OCTOGENARIAN TOUR FIRST STOP ITHACA NEW YORK

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OCTOGENARIAN TOUR — ITHACA NEW YORK

 

GIAC ELDERS

Friday March 21

Elder’s breakfast reading  – breakfast at 9 with 9:45-10 reading

 

SOUTHSIDE

Friday March 21

two workshops with young ones followed by dinner with the kids.

 

BUFFALO BOOKS

Saturday, March 22

Noon gathering of poets at  Buffalo Books.

 

DURLAND ALTERNATIVES LIBRARY

Sunday, March 23 – 3-5

 

GIAC YOUTH

Week of March 24 – 3:30-5:30 –  afternoon yet to be decided

 

ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE | Men’s Group

Tuesday, March 25 – 5:00PM

 

TOMPKINS COUNTY LIBRARY

 Saturday, March 29  – Borg Warner Room East Reserved From 3-5

New York native Kétu Oladuwa is the son of Carrie and John Taylor, Margaret Fisher and Tyrone Foster, and the student of Chief James Hawthorne Béy. Poetry discovered Kétu while on death row for a murder he did not commit. There he calibrated his Afrikan identity & wrote himself anew. With his Life Partner 36 years, he is the father of five. A BS in professional theatre grad of Fordham U, with an MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism, at Northwestern, Kétu blogs at https://rootfolks.com. With 8 self-published books since 2017, he founded Identity Counts Cultural Collective, RootFolks Poets Press, cofounded & produced A Big Apple Jazz Club Series, & Poetikz @ the Krossroads. For 382 days, during 2015-2016, at 70 years, Kétu traveled alone on a motorcycle to the US lower 48 states. Now 80, Kétu's developing a multicity poetry tour.

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