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Cara Lisa

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About Me

Cara Lisa Powers is a "second generation slam baby" (quoth Patricia Smith), a writer, an organizer, a performer, an educator, an activist, a lover, a fighter, a secret rapper, and makes a mean lasagna from scratch. She has performed at the Middle East, the Freedom House, the 119 Gallery, the Hynes Convention Center, Clark University, Cloud Place and the Prudential Center, and has presented workshops at UMASS Boston, Goddard College, Northeastern University, the Boston Globe, Pine Manor College, Teen Voices Magazine, the Community Church of Boston, MIT, the City of Boston's Camp Harborview, the Strand Theatre, Simmons College, and at Champlain College.Cara recently founded By Any Media Necessary (www.byanymedianecessary.com) to continue her work in media education and activism, in addition to her amazingly wonderful full time gig at Press Pass TV (www.presspasstv.org). In addition to her work as an educator and performer, Cara is a member of Reflect & Strengthen, the Malia Collective, and the board of the Homeless Empowerment Project/Spare Change News (the new home of Whats Up Magazine).Now for the interactive part: Finish the line- "She's crafty..." MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

people who want to change my mind. people who want to change the world... the perfect verse over a tight beat.

Sisters of Reflect & Stregthen

Lady Rose

Lady Enchantress

Lady Lex

Shana Shane

m hanora

Bernie

730

Rizz

Cara

M.

Niki

Vivian

Beba

Tayla

Cole

My Blog

easy

I've been trying to shut off this flashing signbut I can't seem to find the battery pack.Seems I buried it too deep under layers ofunwanted therapyof breaking my mother's heart with what she didn'tkno...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:25:00 GMT

Juno

Ok, I don't usually do this. And it might just be the afterglow, but I saw Juno last night and I would be remiss to not recommend it to everyone. Refreshing. It was absolutely refreshing. Fresh, funny...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:35:00 GMT

point of reference

we tell each other too much too quickly this game is familiar to both of us but new with the quick return of seasoned partners we make too much sense to work out and the bad timing will be our demis...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:27:00 GMT

By Any Media Necessary

www.byanymedianecessary.comcheck it!
Posted by on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:41:00 GMT

because things that aren't updated annoy me

And I have my own domain now:www.caralisapowers.comyou should go read about how I got broke up with the other night. it's a funny story.
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:13:00 GMT

dreams

I can't always remember them down to the detail, but the feeling... that sticks around. I just decided that dreams are like crushes... the same flip floppy this is good feeling that is completely grou...
Posted by on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:39:00 GMT

you should see what i've been up to

seriously, pretty funny story about the other night on my real blog (caralisapowers.wordpress.com) but here's a poem I wrote today:this book Judge this book by its coverYeah, I'm a jam packed novel au...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:37:00 GMT

because it looks like i have writer block

most of my stuff is atcaralisapowers.wordpress.combut also, just a quick reflection- i remembered how last time i was up here in vermont it was august, and we all joked that the next time we'd be up h...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:09:00 GMT

karma back hand

i don't know how I so drastically miss the mark when I think things are going well. I mean, seriously, do I make this stuff up in my head? Am I so adept at writing that I LITERALLY make up interaction...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:05:00 GMT

love poems

Very strange, but as happy as I am being single right now (read VERY happy), I have been writing crazy amounts of love poems lately. Brief sampling (read NOT brief)WINDOW SHOPPINGmy timing is offagain...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:04:00 GMT