Dum s, 28, is a graduate of
Michig n State University.
Images and Ideas, Inc. doe
, public relation, media er­
vices, and promotion I work.
She said she went into this line
I of work because her per­
onality dictated it, and Image
. and Ideas, Inc. is a way for her
to use her communicating
skills for both her and her
. clients.
been succe sful in bringing at­
tention to the legitimacy of the
. problem of funding the arts,
brought bout by drastic state
budget cuts.
Harmony House Director
Maggie Porter said this about
the promotion, ",I think it's a
wonderful partnership on be­
half of the arts. We are very
much in need of the arts.
DUM S SAYS Christian
Brothers Brandy is sponsoring
the events to reach back into
the community, and show its
clientele that they are ap­
preciated.
Christian Brothers Brandy
is spon oring the Perfect
Match Game at night clubs in
six other cities.
DUMAS' COMPANY has
, been in businessIor two years,
and includes Conyer River­
ide Ford, Club Pinta, and the
Pistons Clinic on its Ii t of
clients. .
(1 Image and Idea J Inc. was
responsibte for promoting and
coordinating the "Perfect
Match Game."
Five of Detroit's profes­
sional Black organizations
teamed-up with Christian
Brothers Brandy to host 'five
separate games at area
nightclubs, to raise money for
Michigan's only Black theatre,
Harmony Park Playhouse.
Chris n Brothers Brandy will
match" proceeds from the
I' events dollar-for-dollar.
The organizations par­
ticipating were the Female
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Broadside Remembers "This Poemll
Etheridge Knight
(/934-1991)
by CAROIJYN WARFI LD
Arts Correspondent
An intimate celebration for
a "poet e xtr ao r dl nare ," wa
held Sunday, April 7, at Your
Heritage Hou e for Etheridge
Knight who pa �d on March
� 10.
"He wa an hone 1 and in­
teresting man," aid Hilda
Vest, Broad ide publisher,
"a poet who could release
enormous feeling and emotion
through language and sound."
lmpri oned for. armed rob­
bery in 1960, Knight lruggled
to kick a drug habit while in­
carcerated. He lamented the
hard les on learned from
drugs in "Another Poem For
Me." "Darn fool nigger- what
next?" he said.
Despl te an informal educa­
tion and tint behind bar,
Knight honed hi writing into
a ensitive fluid tyle. Alvin
Aubert, Ph.d., in a review of
"E ential" described
Knight's literary power as "an
avoidance of hypocrisy." He
aw Knight 8 a man whose
de perate life e xp r e sions
dealt with freedom, love.
guilt and exculpation in con­
current rawne and refine­
ment.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
and Dudley Randall en­
couraged Knight to face him­
elf. In the 1960's and 1970' ,
Knight began' to receive
recognition.
As time pas ed, hi acclaim
brought forth national
award: a National Endow­
ment, a· Guggenheim and in
1987, an American Writer
Award. He crved writer in
re ide nee at the Univer i tie s
of Pill burgh and W leyan.
In 1980, Broad ide publi h­
ed "Born of a Woman: New
and Selected Poem."
Three collection
preceded: "Poems From
Prison," "Black Voi e From
Pri on" and "Belly Song."
Of "Belly Song" Knight
poke of the hou e of feeling
I was on your Wull
in your cell
(the 48th picture)
the young Black ca
with the wild hair
trying to be Black
back Black then
but there you were
showing us all that
the prison bars extends
'far beyond the mer walls
of your cell's ceiling
and floors
extending out
to wherever Black folks
or brown folks
or red folks
or po whit folk
'and/or all folks
not their kind
of folks
or wanting to be
their kind
of folks
or trying to keep
from being those
kind of folks are
that the physical prisons
(being more then the second home
for'most Black males)
are more outsi�e hos
bars then within th m
impr ison ing us 1 ik > ck in
The past catchc up
with us. No th
future planned for U5
hits us head on
whenever our.guartl
is let down.
Etheridge keep your
. guard up
didn't you read
the fine print
which s id your cell
is lways wai Ing for you
or orne one just lik� you
Spinning' tall tales tha
would make Sterling
Brown b�am and L ngston
laugh or
The other words you spit out
on paper
with more potency
then the venom
. of Hard Rock or
Cleo's asp
sown like ,dragon teeth
waiting impatiently
for the harvest
to help arm us ,
showing us that though
"we be/all in prison"
we don't have to be prisoners
we can " e fre om"
Willie D. Willi m