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Luqmon Abdus-Salaam, a South Side artist on a fellowship with the August Wilson Center, gets to showcase his poetry, prose and spiritual hymns at a festival the center is putting on for the next week.
Abdus-Salaam -- who is called the "big brother" of performance poetry by many local artists -- says that he won't just recite poems when he performs at "First Voice: A Pittsburgh International Black Arts Festival," which begins Friday and runs through May 28. When he performs before an audience, with musical backdrops, he both speaks and sings theatrically from the heart, by memory, Abdus-Salaam says.See the full content of this document
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'Pittsburgh International Black Arts Festival' Finds Its Voice
"It's part theater, part performance and part music, all combined in one," says Abdus-Salaam, 30. He will perfo...
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