Four half-hour episodes – kind of short for a season if you ask me – all hosted by Mos Def, who opens each program with a reading from a more traditional poet.

Recorded live in NYC in 2002. Lots of anti-war sentiment, lots of really liberal politics. (We’re talking reparations liberal.) Lots of ethnic pride, too, and a certain amount of down-with-rich-white-people.

Loved a lot of poems, hated a lot of poems, but wasn’t ambivalent about a single one.

Episode One:
Steve Coleman, “I Wanna Hear a Poem”
Georgia Me, “Full Figured Potential”
Nikki Giovanni, “Shoulders are for Emergencies Only”
Suheir Hammad, a revision of “First Writing Since”

Episode Two:
Taylor Mali, “What Teachers Make”
Yellow Rage, “Listen, Asshole”
Sonia Sanchez, “Poem for Some Women”
Shihan, “This Type Love”
Dawn Saylor, “Isis”*

Episode Three:
Sarah Jones, “Your Revolution”
Beau Sia (I will broken English my way to sidekick status…)
J Ivy, “I Need to Write”

Episode Four:
Poetri, “Money” (My money’s been acting funny lately…)
Liza Jessie Peterson, “Ice Cream Cone”