Stories from The World We Spin In
by Carletta Joywalker
Stories of playing in the World dancing to the Urban Beat of megatropolist Cultural Activity what's the Weather and Ecology of Pacific ocean carrying a boat with a Koala bear of this kind of fun Young rhythm Beat one two three four seven to eleven Public Affairs visionary stares Feature play space swings with giraffes centipedes and macaws See turtles swim with the whales from atop the redwood forest…laugh weep Meditate art awake breathe breathe breathe…
Episodes
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HT, Sweetness and Arletti: Bike Adventures
HT, Sweetness and Arletti: Bike Adventures is a story of three friends bicycle ride through their neighborhood to the horse stables in the park, where they visit their horse friends–Buckeye, Pony Express and Jezebel.
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Fossie Bear Plays Saxophone
Fossie Bear Plays Saxophone is a story loosely based on the life of composer, jazz soloist—baritone, alto, soprano saxes, clarinet, flute, vocalist—and band leader Fostina Dixon. It came to me after a concert. I remembered the electric energy that flowed through Fostina the first time I heard her...
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Magic Ella’s Garden
The story – Magic Ella’s Garden – comes from what I heard about a neighborhood garden’s origin, coupled with looking at the garden, its beautiful people and plants, and my fantastical imagining.
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The Gift of the Alien Queen
The Gift of the Alien Queen is a delightful science fiction story written by Bindu Nicholson, my niece, on one of her first ventures into science fiction.
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Letty Stories: World Clocks, Wild Soccer, Pen Pals…
First in a series of stories of Letty, her daily life and adventures. This story introduces Letty, her friends and relatives and more. Hear Carletta Joy Walker STORIES W/THE ECLECTIC LIBRARIAN Thursdays at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum for Art & Storytelling
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Down At The Wreck
Wild adventures with Graeme Base in his story world.
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Sapphire Interview {from the archives}
Sapphire: She live in full-spectrum truth-light*poet*novelist*performance poet*dancer*teacher— “I have brought into the public gaze women who have been marginalized by sexual abuse, poverty, and their blackness. Through art I have sought to center them in the world.”—her first novel, Push…
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Ntozake Shange Interview {from the archives}
Ntozake Shange: She live in music-light & love innovating poet*spoken-word artist*dancer*novelist* playwright* mother*very known for gift— “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,”—that keeps giving*born October 18, 1948 Trenton, NJ,—died October 27, 2018 Bowie, MD...
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Jayne Cortez Interview {from the archives}
Jayne Cortez: She Visionary poet *cultural worker*mother*grandmother*director, known for Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future (1999)…*born May 10, 1934 in Fort Huachuca, Arizona—died December 28, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City* Interview first aired on Joy Journal Program – WBAI,...
About this show
Stories of playing in the World dancing to the Urban Beat of megatropolist Cultural Activity what's the Weather and Ecology of Pacific ocean carrying a boat with a Koala bear of this kind of fun Young rhythm Beat one two three four seven to eleven Public Affairs visionary stares Feature play space swings with giraffes centipedes and macaws See turtles swim with the whales from atop the redwood forest…laugh weep Meditate art awake breathe breathe breathe…
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Carletta Joywalker
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