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Member Since: 16/01/2007
Band Website: www.marvinkwhite.com
Band Members: Hey now. My name is Marvin K. White and don't ask about the "K" because I will lie and tell you that it stands for Kunta. "Standing for Kunta" that's the name of my new foundation set up to remove the scars of slavery. Okay, no its not. I'm a stay-at-home son caring for his mama who is wearing Alzheimer's like a crown of Black Eye Pea vines.
So I'm a nationally recognized author. That means my book has been read in New York and Ohio. Both of my books are LAMBDA Literary Award nominated collections of poetry, Nothin’ Ugly Fly(Redbone Press 2004) and Last Rights (Redbone Press 2004). I am a poet, performer, playwright, visual artist as well as a community arts organizer. But more importantly I am love and believe in love and believe that I am here to witness and proclaim loving acts through art and through service.
Oh, I'm also a former member of the critically and theatrically acclaimed PomoAfroHomos. Look for our "Dream Girls(esque)" comeback real soon. I'm Effie.
My poetry has been anthologized in The Road Before Us, My Brothers Keeper, Things shaped in passing, Sojourner, Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians, Bum Rush the Page, Voices Rising, Samiya Bashir's "Role Call" as well as other local and national publications.
I currently hold a fellowship in the national African American poetry organization Cave Canem. I co-founded an arts group called B/GLAM(Black Gay Letters and Arts Movement) and I sit on the board of Fire and Ink, a national Black LGBT writers organization and conference and I have led creative arts and writing workshops from inner city elementary schools to youth centers for runaway kids to black gay youth support groups.
I love to wax poetically and philosphically on life, where we been and came from, cake, house music, writing, art, dancing, television, sex, god, church, holiness, community, love, food, fashion, internet surfing, junk, thrift stores, family, friendships, entrepreneurship, building things, tearing things down, singing things and quieting loud folks down. Love the Black in all of us. Love the us in all of us.
I love House Music and revere DJ's and think there is a thin line between pulpit and booth and preacher spinner. It all comes back to wax. I dance to get close to god. Close my eyes and imagine myself pleasing. Thank you David Harness and all you house flies buzzing round so beautifully. Thank you for helping me reconcile my body and my condition and spirtituality and my sexuality and my ear to ground and sky. Thank you for the collective groove that I find myself longing for. Thank you for the call and response that you and I all have.
"I see you up there in the Balcony and I love you too!"
Influences:
If I had a son...
It would be him
Record Label: Unsigned