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Mar.
2005
La
Tasha N. Nevada Diggs
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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,
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blind
date (a sound poem)
[Originally
published in Long Shot Issue #26, edited by Danny Shot and Nancy
Mercado]
network
cheesy van halen rock riffle
benny hill slapstick grapefruit hater
Idaho coppertop jaws jibber
flat matt designer
adobe™
graph-o-matic
the video profile:
sassy southern bell open minded per photographer
jacuzzi silicone
honey
bunny
likes
men who are sincere
divorced fun lovin’ whino mid-life cruiser earth hipster
beef eater chatterbox guzzler
“goes
for girls with a butt”
e.p.i.s.o.d.e.
3.18.02
“is elizabeth’s
down to earth attitude what rico is looking for?”
“can rrrrrricco
be z lover not z fighter elizabeth needs”
washer board back
side
speed bar candy
factory
body paint mud
bath
lap up a ham hock
for a belly dance
taxi ride escort
eye doctor overboard
her bikini lini maxi plops spots on g-strings
jail house tattoo on his boo boo ain’t water proof
waddle waddle id to ego to no goodbye kiss
poker shot
pucker diss
the vagina
and please flash
the juicy flat-liner
“once
you go rican you never go seekin”
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