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Michael "Warrior" Bonds is the: Ghetto Representative Interpreting Our Thoughts
Warrior has performed his unique brand of spoken word actionist poetry and co-facilitated workshops nationally. he won international acclaim in Europe, performing and facilitating workshops at the Air Lift Project in Zurich Switzerland in 2005. He also recorded a new album in Geneva Switzerland produced by DJ Goo for Synchrovision Records featuring Bryonn Bain co-founder of the Blackout Arts Collective.
His CD "Gunz, Poems & Rosez" is on sale in Zurich at 6 Pack Records, Crazy Beat and other fine stores. His presence and poetry has been felt as far away as the UK London and Africa.
He is a member of the Black Scribes Society, Poetry Joint . Com and the Blackout Arts Collective which is an affiliate of the New York Foundation of the Arts.
His words will grab you and respectfully hold the collective attention hostage making certain you feel his experience, strength and hope.
The legendary Brian Jackson
told the Warrior:
"do the damn thing, brotha. you’ve got the gift. bless em! "
Voted both "Boston Community Warrior" and "Poet Warrior" of Hartford Connecticut in 2003.
In February 2005 the Warrior was a featured poet on Def Poetry Jam’s website www.defpoetryjam.com., the Def Poetry Jam co-founder Bruce George has respectfully embraced the Warrior G.R.I.O.T. as being
"a muckraker without trepidation."
Monti Smith producer of the Red Bull Word Clash said when asked about the Warrior:
"lets just hope he breeds and fast!"
The Warrior has performed in front of and in shows that included the likes of:Gospel great Mrs. Tramaine Hawkins,
Dr. Bobby Jones at the Urban Impact Summit,
Dead Prez, Saul Williams,
Wise Intelligent (formally of Poor Righteous Teachers),
Pharaohe Monche, Madusa,
Chico Debarge,
hip hop legends Kurtis Blow and Whoodini just to name a few.
He has made poetic contributions to: Berkelee Performance Center, Boston Mass. 2008 Widener University, (Chester, PA) 2008 University of Pennsylvania (Phila) 2008 African American Ball, UMass Boston Feb, 2008 Martin Luther King International Chapel, Morehouse College (Atl Ga.) 2007 Morehouse College Jazzman Cafe Poetry Night "Mics of the Roundtable" @ the Whitaker Center, (Harrisburg PA.) 2007 "From Prison to Page" @ the Kennedy Center (Washington DC) 2007 Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby academic Center (Katrina Survivors Event) Atl Ga. The Finding Our Folks Tour for Hurricane Katrina Survivors (Atlanta Ga. and Mobile Alabama) 2006,
Chicago Art Institute, Ill. 2005 Lyrics On Lockdown Tour 2005 (Boston, NY, Conn, DC, New Orleans)
NAACP National Convention 2003 with the BLACKOUT Arts Collective (Miami Fla.),
Participate Conference 2004 (Washington DC),
Beats for Peace tour Summerville Theater (Massachusetts),
ACLU College tour Saunders Theater at Harvard University,
ACORN Friends of the People Banquet at the Omni Parker House (Boston),
Community Gems at University of Massachusetts Boston,
National Black Agenda Convention 2004 opening day host (Boston),
The U.S. Postal Service Langston Hughes Stamp unveiling, Black August South 2003 (New Orleans)
...
He Has Facilitated work shops on:
the Prison Industrial Complex, Preventing Youth Violence and Conflict Resolution.
After 8 years spent in the 21st Century indentured servitude including 3 consecutive
years 23 hour solitary confinement, the Warrior G.R.I.O.T. has made good on a personal commitment to empower others.
"This is the spoken word in it’s rawest/realest form. Get into the mind of a Ghetto Representative."
~Vibrant Magazine~
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