Spoken Word Poet Ngoma @ The Inspired Word's NYC Open Mic Joint - Nuyorican Poets Café

Spoken Word Poet Ngoma @ The Inspired Word's NYC Open Mic Joint, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, Nuyorican Poets Café, Manhattan, New York. Hosted by Nathan P. 

Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and paradigm shifter, who for over 40 years has used culture as a tool to raise sociopolitical and spiritual consciousness through work that encourages critical thought. A former member of the SPIRIT HOUSE MOVERS AND PLAYERS with Amiri Baraka and the Contemporary Freedom Song Duo, SERIOUS BIZNESS, Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises contradictions and searches for a solution for a just and peaceful world. Ngoma was the Prop Slam winner of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Competition in Middletown, CT and was published in AFRICAN VOICES MAGAZINE, LONG SHOT ANTHOLOGY, THE UNDERWOOD REVIEW, SIGNIFYIN' HARLEM REVIEW, BUM RUSH THE PAGE/DEF POETRY JAM ANTHOLOGY,POEMS ON THE ROAD TO PEACE (Volumes 1,2 & 3)-Yale Press and LET LOOSE ON THE WORLD:CELEBRATING AMIRI BARAKA at 75. He was featured in the PBS Spoken Word Documentary, "The Apro-Poets" with Allen Ginsberg. Ngoma has curated and hosted the slam at the Dr. Martin Luther King Festival of Social and Environmental Justice Festival (Yale University-New Haven, CT) since 1996. His newest C.D "Poetry from a Smart Phone is a series of poems and music that were all written during the National Poetry Month 30/30 Challenge of 2011. All music and poetry written and performed by Ngoma known nationally,internationally and intergalactically as"Ngoma's Not Your Average String Thing "featuring Ngoma on -Vocals,Bamboo Flute,Electrik Violin,Acoustic Guitar,Yidaki (Didgeridoo) & Garage Band Tracks