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Mar.
2005
La Tasha N. Nevada Diggs
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AUDIO
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Writer,
vocalist, and Harlem denizen, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs explores
sound through
macaronic verse, language and electronic vocal processing. A fellow of the
Cave Canem
Workshop for African American Poets, Latasha has completed residencies at Caldera
Art
Space and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center as well as receiving a Zora
Neale Hurston
scholarship from Naropa Institute and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.
Diggs
has authored two chap-books, Ichi-Ban: from the files of
negríta muñeca linda and Ni-ban:
Villa Misería, produced and wrote for the conceptual audio project,
Televisíon, and is the lead electronic vocalist for two bands, the Yohimbe
Brothers, fronted by Vernon Reid and DJ Logic and The Beat Kids, fronted by
Guillermo E. Brown.
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Tasha N. Nevada Diggs, yohimbe brothers, elctronica, poet, performance
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Blank
Cassette
you
showcase the worst of
summer
by noon the forest details
your scorch
I taste the battery from your
match
alone, I chase the hum of helicopters. make a melody from the evoke of hum
alone, I sing blue
lakes’ din
leave me a rock with some seed. leave me a drop or more.
my name is why
I am here in pink carpenters and
ashy palms
while rain purees the soot
I pelican from couch to
window
make a melody
from the evoke of hum
leave me rocks with some seed. leave me a drop or more
my name is why
the creek keeps me in pulse an
elegy for peppery char
I whisper leave
me something something
the volcanic rocks are everywhere.
my
terrain dead soon newborns.
leave me rocks with some seed. leave me a drop or more
my name is why
you last whispered a sorrel refrain
I forgot to press record
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